Help! I keep  losing songs on Itunes

Everytime I connect my ipod to itunes there are songs where the files can't be found. How do I fix this permanently? I have the songs saved to my portable hard drive.

I have also noticed this as my itunes library is 2021 songs and I have only 1898 songs on my ipod .. where have the rest gone
my ipod video use to get synced with all of them and there isnt any unrecognised file format issue ...
i just hope apple comes up with a new firmware soon .
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