It started with iTunes Plus

I decided to upgrade some songs to iTunes Plus. When I closed iTunes and came back to it, it started to rebuild the iTunes Library. That's when I noticed some songs were missing from the iTunes listings, though they were still on the external Firewire drive where I keep the files. I imported the missing songs and things seemed fine until I synced my iPhone 3G and watched in horror as about half of my apps disappeared. I know I can download them again, but...
When I closed and re-opened iTunes again, it started to rebuild the library file again.
Everything worked fine...until I upgraded about 15 songs to iTunes Plus.
Has anyone run into this problem? If so, what did you do?
TIA, Bob

There is no requirement to store content on an iDevice, the user controls this by managing the content on the iDevice via iTunes.
Keeping content on the computer or an external drive is a good practice from a backup perspective. There is no guarantee that content in iTunes will always be there. Content is added and removed regularly based on rights from the content owners.
If users wish to always have access to the content they purchased, the user should keep local copies.

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