First stage, as advice suggested I would be best to mount drives by UUID, was to use the command:
$ ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid/
Then to work through etc/ fstab. This took several iterations, and reference to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=283131 and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MoveMountpointHowto
Within a relatively short period of time, the 1TB drive and the 102GB drive were mounting perfectly each time. But home just would not. Repeatedly. Until, finally, I realised there was an "8" missing from the end of the UUID. Added this to fstab, and success!
This is the revised, working, /etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
#
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=ae74bd28-c1a4-4b47-a5fe-f9526e134a59 none swap sw 0 0
# /sdc1
UUID=54c66aed-9cb1-4253-b718-172a75b1de28 /media/sdc1 ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home
UUID=6b7511e6-5ece-47a3-94c1-0aa5f91fe4f8 /home ext2 nodev,nosuid,relatime 0 2
# /sda1 - the 120GB drive with videos
UUID=14075d78-b883-47c2-a7ef-4898f1dab9f7 /media/sda1 ext3 defaults 0 0
# /sdb1 - the 1TB drive
UUID=7ba6e23a-2b1f-4e65-b735-ff4724e1c2d5 /media/1TB ext3 user,grpid,suid,dev,exec,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Uninstalled / unmounted drives
# No CD present
#/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
# No floppy present
#/dev/scd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
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