Bridge Rebuilding Cache on External Drive Unnecessarily – How Can I Stop It ?

I have Bridge CS4 on a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
Connected to the laptop is a Firewire hard-drive on which I am storing my images.
For some unknown reason, and only from time-to-time, Bridge wants to rebuild the entire cache in any given folder.
For example, last night I added some new RAW files to a folder, waited until Bridge had added them to the cache cache before closing down.  So the cahche was complete.  This morning Bridge is rebuilding the entire cache to the folder (as I write)  – for ALL the RAW files – thumbnails, previews, and full size extractions.  As you can imagine, with a folder containing hundreds of images, this is very tedious; also the hard-drive and laptop get very hot and bothered.
Note:  the above is only an example, and the rebuilding appears to occur at any time and under any circumstances (but only when Bridge opens a folder previously cached).  BTW this doesn't happen on the Mac's internal drive.
Now, I have selected the 'Authomatically Export Cache To Folders When Possible' option in the Preferences, and checked that the cache file is present in the folder (it is), so this shouldn't – in theory – happen.
Can anyone shed any light on why Bridge keeps rebulding the cache to the external drive, and what I might be able to do to stop it ?

Curt, thanks for your reply.
Tons of disk space !  And the cache is not very large – 130Mb.
Permissions (!??!) – therein lies a ‘mares nest’* of possibilities…
The powering-up/recognition may be something to do with it.  I will monitor this and see if I can spot a pattern.
Many thanks for your suggestions.  I will report back in due course.
(* with reference to ‘Fawlty Towers’ and Basil Fawlty)

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