Problem with iTunes and Hard Drive

I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem but I haven't had it up until this morning. I was putting songs onto my iPod (It's set to manual manage) and I would drop and drag and go look for a new song but when I brought the folder up it would tell me that the previous songs file destination couldn't be found, and it was deleted from my Music Folder however when I went to click on the song to get it's information the file destination would say it was in it's original spot I'm not sure what to do since I've never had this problem before and I don't think it's my Ipod I think it's something either with iTunes or my Computer and I can' figure out which.
Any more questions let me know and any help would be great!
Thanks!!
Erin
Message was edited by: Ed Dicesare

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