I almost always move a database via backup/restore. About the only thing that you have to fuss over in doing this is making sure the logins that are on...
At the risk of insulting you all with this suggestion, have you verified that the databases for which you are getting the failures have an appropriate recovery model selected?
Brian Kelly's response is dead-on. I just created a 3-node cluster just as you are proposing, and it was a snap. I would suggest going to the Microsoft...
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