ITunes deletes symlinked folder on Album Artist rename

Hello community,
I experience a very strange behavior of iTunes in combination with Symlinked folders. I use Windows 7 and my folder structure is listed below. I have a Laptop with a 256GB SSD and instead DVD-Drive a 640GB SATA drive.
Drive layout:
C: System (Windows Drive)
D: UserProfile (also symlinked to D:\Username
E: Media
My iTunes DB is about 170GB large including media of all kind. I spread the iTunes Media subfolders among several drive, because I want iTunes to start up very fast, but playing music and syncing my iPhone would not benefit from the fast SSD Drive so I don't want to waste the valuable fast space.
Now when I change the Album Artist of an album iTunes kills/deletes my Music symlink folder after completing the first rename and show the rest of the album as missing files (with the ! in front)
I have discovered that this only happens when iTunes tries to rename/move folders like it does if the Album artist is changed.
I have already tried restricting the permission to the symlinked folder to read even with deny write permissions, but it manages to delete the folder everytime.
I have used a folder junction instead also. All without joy.
The owner of the folder is the Administrators group which my user is a member of. There are several reason I cannot work a a regular user and I do not want to change that.
So did anyone experience this and knows why this is the case? I would be glad to know. Thanks for everybody investing a thought
Sorry for this text monster, but this really bugs me.
Best regards Bruce
P.S. Maybe Apple will here my whining and look into this behavior also.
+Directory of C:\Users\Username\Music (actually D:\Username\Music)+
+2010-09-28 13:12 <DIR> .+
+2010-09-28 13:12 <DIR> ..+
+2010-09-27 16:43 <SYMLINKD> iTunes [d:\iTunes]+
+0 File(s) 0 bytes+
+3 Dir(s) 146,808,844,288 bytes free+
+C:\Users\Username\Music>dir itunes+
+Volume in drive C has no label.+
+Volume Serial Number is B022-C44F+
+Directory of C:\Users\Username\Music\itunes+
+2010-10-02 23:41 <DIR> .+
+2010-10-02 23:41 <DIR> ..+
+2010-10-02 23:41 <DIR> Album Artwork+
+2010-10-02 23:41 1,007,616 iTunes Library Extras.itdb+
+2010-10-02 18:33 72,208,384 iTunes Library Genius.itdb+
+2010-10-02 23:32 5,963,887 iTunes Library.itl+
+2010-10-02 23:30 29,777,149 iTunes Library.xml+
+2010-10-02 23:29 <DIR> iTunes Media+
+2010-09-27 16:45 <DIR> Previous iTunes Libraries+
+4 File(s) 108,957,036 bytes+
+5 Dir(s) 146,808,844,288 bytes free+
+C:\Users\Username\Music>dir "itunes\iTunes Media"+
+Volume in drive C has no label.+
+Volume Serial Number is B022-C44F+
+Directory of C:\Users\Username\Music\itunes\iTunes Media+
+2010-10-02 23:29 <DIR> .+
+2010-10-02 23:29 <DIR> ..+
+2010-09-27 16:07 <SYMLINKD> Audiobooks [e:\iTunes\iTunes Media\Audiobook+
s]
+2010-09-27 16:03 <DIR> Automatically Add to iTunes+
+2010-10-02 21:53 <DIR> Downloads+
+2010-10-02 23:14 <DIR> Mobile Applications+
+This folder gets deleted.+
+2010-10-02 23:29 <SYMLINKD> Music [e:\iTunes\iTunes Media\Music]+
+2010-09-27 16:08 <SYMLINKD> Podcasts [e:\iTunes\iTunes Media\Podcasts]+
+2010-09-27 16:03 <DIR> Ringtones+
+2010-09-27 16:09 <SYMLINKD> TV Shows [e:\iTunes\iTunes Media\TV Shows]+

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
iTunes and symlinks don't play nicely... They work OK as long as iTunes is only reading data but get all confused when iTunes tries to write back. I recommend you just put the whole library on a drive big enough to hold it all in one go.
tt2

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