ITunes automatically deletes songs?!?!

I received an iPod shuffle 2nd gen for Christmas. I am very frustrated with trying to use the thing. I have over 30 Gigs of mp3 burned to RW discs. I do not want to reload the songs on my hard drive because I need the free space. I would like to have a small selection of my favorites on the iPod when I am not around an mp3 disc player (computer/car stereo). I have gone throught he exercise of copying the desired music to the iPod via iTunes 7. I listen to the iPod without incident. However when I recharge the iPod, iTunes deletes all of my MP3s and I have to reload the songs - EVERY TIME!! This is very frustrating. Is there a setting I can use to stop this behavior? I have seen posts about using the Summary tab on the iPod Device screen but iTunes 7 only displays a Setting and Contents tab, neither of which seem to be helpful.
Thank you,
Fred
Shuffle 2nd Gen Windows XP Pro <br

Thanks for the reply. Let's see if I understand completely as I am an old dog trying to learn new tricks here.
1. The iPod shuffle always removes songs that are not in the iTunes folder on my hard drive every time I plug the thing in for a charge.
2. I'm assuming that this behavior explains another problem that I am having:
a. I copy MP3s from one CD to my iPod and everything looks fine.
b. I copy songs from a second MP3 CD and the first set of songs disappears even though I haven't unplugged and reattached the iPod.
Kind of irratating seeing as how I copied the MP3s to CD to avoid having them on my hard drive.
Another question - When I added the MP3s on CD to my iTunes Music Library it didn't physically copy the songs to folder on the HD. Can I copy them with Explorer and have iTunes find and reload them with Autofill??
Shuffle 2nd Gen Windows XP Pro

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