Drive Setup 2.0.7 question "Top vs. Bottom" "First vs. Next"??

[D. G. Bowie]

Here's my Drive Setup question:  When you initialize and divide a 
drive into two partitions with Drive Setup, does one of the 
partitions take priority as the "first" or "top" partition?  I 
recently took my Macintosh Powerbook G3 (Lombard, 333 MHz, with 384 
RAM and 40 GB hard drive) in for repair after seeing this message for 
the first time and experiencing random crashes and freezes:

"The built-in memory test has detected a problem with cache memory. 
Please contact a service technician for assistance."

The fix-it shop ran various diagnostic texts, but didn't find a 
memory or hardware problem.  They told me that I had installed OSX 
(Panther) on the wrong partition.  (By way of explanation, most of 
the time I still use 9.2.2, since all my music software is 
pre-Panther, but I've had OSX installed on a second partition for 
some time now, anticipating a future move up to it.)

So, I paid their standard $50 servicing charge, grateful for the 
advice, and brought my Mac home.  Now, after backing up all my files 
onto another computer, I'm surprised to discover that the 
partitioning scheme I had been using appears fine.  In other words, 
in the Drive Setup "custom setup" screen, the "Panther" partition 
(7939 MB) sits on top of the "9.2.2 Powerbook" partition (29,958 MB). 
I wonder if perhaps the partition on the bottom is really the one I 
need to re-install Panther on?  If not, I wonder if I've received 
dubious or random advice?  In looking through the Drive Setup 
documentation, I find no mention of any partition taking priority as 
the "first" or the "top" partition; I've always assumed that the 
"Startup Disk" control panel in 9.2.2 dictates priority.

I do intend to give the Panther partition more space than the 8 GB 
it's had up until now, but I still don't know whether to install 
Panther on the bottom or top partition.  I've been told it matters, 
but I'm confused.  I'll need to ask the service folks more about 
this, but also wanted to post my question here in the meantime. 
Thanks for any wisdom on this matter.

Regards,
Greenfield Bowie
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