Entire Folder of Podcasts Vanishes from External HDD

All:
Recently I lost an entire folder on an external disk drive. Any ideas about what I should do to test or check the drive? I could not find the folder in my trash, etc. It wasn't moved. I had just synced podcasts a day or so before today.

I don't think the loss of files and changes is something happening 'regularly' and it sounds like, based on symptoms only, that it would more likely point to a bad disk sector or something like a corrupt directory.
As to recovery, the demo of Data Rescue II is the first thought. But I would not use the drive(s) until I booted from another ("emergency") boot drive first and checked things out. I would restore to another drive even, if that is possible, and of course recover to another drive. And backup again before you start.
Don't rely on just one backup drive or method. A couple backup sets, some redundancy. Cloning and TimeMachine. I was using two TimeMachine sets, in case something happened to one of them.
If you don't use your drives, less likely to overwrite or use the portion of the drives those files might have resided on.
I can't find the article on MacFixit, but I saw something about 10.5.4 and having iTunes on a different volume. There was one that warned about not making changes to the folders that iPhoto manages and making manual changes; I assume something to do with the originals and modified changed folders or in the iPhoto Library package.
Sounds like you would have run Disk Warrior from one of your FW drives or something before updating to 10.5.4, along with a clone of your system. Also, consider putting backups on sparse disk image(s). One for home account even.
Adobe posted updates to CS3 InDesign shortly after 10.5.4 was out.
I've got half a dozen OWC Mercury type drive cases. One thing I noticed after 10.5.4 is that some that I had made backup clones now had the "Ignore Ownership" flag set to on - something that I always check and which would prevent a proper backup or restore and wouldn't allow repair permissions. So in some way, 10.5.4 did do "something" to those FW drives, but not sure how or why the ownership would be changed.

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