ITunes always syncs same songs and sometimes deletes them from iPhone!

I have a weird problem with iTunes syncing music to the iPhone. I have 5 songs (the first song of one album and the first 4 songs of another album) that are sync'ed, i.e. downloaded to the phone, everytime I plug the phone into the USB port. Furthermore, if the external disk that contains my music is not plugged in, then those 5 songs actually get deleted from my iPhone, although all the other music is left intact on the phone.
This is annoying because I usually don't turn on my external disk that contains my music library, unless I'm making a change to the library or to the contents of the iPhone, which I do maybe once a week. Because of this bug in iTunes, I have to leave the external disk all the time... and then watch it download those 5 songs everytime!
FYI... I am syncing a subset of my music library to the iPhone, using a playlist called "David's iPhone" to hold the music I want on the iPhone. I have "Only sync checked items" UNselected and I don't have any songs in my library checked.
Anybody else having this problem or know of a fix?

Hi Nathan,
Thanks for attempting to help, but, no, ALL my music is on the external drive, and, no, iTunes does NOT delete the music from my iPhone or iPods if that disk is off or disconnected... except for the 5 mystery songs. Even if the external disk is off and iTunes can't find the songs, they remain listed in my iTunes library and I do get warnings from iTunes about them not being found, but iTunes doesn't delete them from a "mobile device" that they have already been downloaded to. I imagine that this is intentional behavior for just such situations.
As further evidence of this, the other songs on the SAME ALBUM, which were ripped at the same time, of course, are NOT deleted!
No, the point is that there is something about these 5 songs that is weird. Even if I leave my music library disk online, iTunes syncs, i.e. downloads, those 5 songs EVERYTIME I plug in the iPhone. Actually, I've just seen posts from some others who have this same problem. The songs being deleted from the iPhone when my music library disk is off is just an extension of this problem.
BTW, I've never seen this bug with my iPods, although I haven't been using my iPods much since I got my iPhone :-)!

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