Thanks for all the input.

In the past when I had a cable reversed or something, the drives would always 
power up at least, so I kind of discounted this answer, but I unplugged 
cables anyway so I could say I tried it.  Guess what?  The drives powered up.

I had used a new cable when I put the thing together.  In fact it was the one 
that came with the motherboard.  But as soon as I switched the primary IDE 
cable, both the hard drive and the CD rom began working fine.  So the cable 
was the issue.  I had just never seen that symptom from a bad cable before.  

Thanks for the help.

Devin
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