ITunes 10.1.0.56 keeps losing music

Everytime I sync my 3Gs, sync warns me that it cannot locate some music tracks. For example, about 330 songs out of 1500 this morning were missing. So I go through and locate all of the MIA tracks and re-sync. Every thing is ok until after I close iTunes and sync again a couple of days later and then a different group of songs disappear. All songs are on the main disk drive. Any ideas on how to repair this buggy database?

One thing that might help locate the problem is that you can open iTunes Library.xml with WordPad.
The file contains the path to files amongst other things.
Use search to locate a track that is missing and you should be able to see where iTunes thinks it is - that might help work out what is going on. Note that the space character is replaced with %20 in the paths.
Do you have any other software on your PC that could be moving your files around/organising your music. iTunes does not do folder watching so if anything moves iTunes will lose it.

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