ITunes erasing purchased music from iPhone

Please help!
I have purchased three songs via the iPhone during the last two months. When I connect my iPhone to my computer the purchased songs are erased without any notification. All other material on my iPhone remains intact (i.e., songs imported from cd's, audio books, movies etc...) If I download songs via my computer/iTunes everything is fine.
sys info:
iPhone F/W 1.1.4
iTunes 7
Windows XP

Thank you for the quick response.
However, the files/songs never get copied to my computer. (i.e., never synced over to iTunes nor my hard drive) I have performed a complete search and the files just do not exist. The first time this occurred, iTunes support stated that the download was incomplete and reissued a download. I proceeded to download the song via my computer without any issues. To this day it is still in the purchased folder. (Note: after originally downloading the song via iPhone, it worked perfectly on the phone until sync)
This scenario happened again with the last two purchases. Both songs loaded fine to the iPhone via iPhone's iTunes. The songs played on the phone for ever a week and then stopped once i plugged the phone into iTunes via computer.
Do you think I may have a setting that is hampering my songs from being copied from my iPhone to my computer?
I would like to get this cleared up before I try to download another song via my iPhone.
thanks,
BBB

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