ITunes (ext)

Afternoon all:
I downloaded iTunes 9 since then I have noticed that, the header in iTunes now reads iTunes(Ext) ***!!!. My external hard drive where I kept all my music went there with no problem.
Now after this update two songs I have download (either by iTunes or another program) is stored in something called /Volumes/HDD and when i do a search on either my mac HD or my external HD the songs are not showing up!!
Can someone tell me what to do how do i now find two hidden songs and how do i get iTunes to download back into my HDD

one correction it is stored in something called /Volumes/HDD2

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