ITunes Library Frequently MIssing

Since I started plugging in my new iPhone, my iTunes library intermittenly goes missing. I can simply browse for it and find it again, but this behavior is making me nervous. Anyone experience this behavior or know a fix? I do have my iTunes library on an external drive, but this definitely started with the iPhone. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks.
sundevil671

I had this same problem today and I freaked out!!! I just got the 4th gen ipod and im still using my 3rd gen which is jail broken. I choose to restore it and a few days later I noticed all the music, videos and apps from my itunes library was missing. I had backed up all music but not videos so I was a little mad, but then today when I turned on my new gen ipod all the music was missing from there as well!? Not sure what happened. thought maybe because it was jail broken it erased my library but why my new gen? I got most of everything back but not sure what happened. I also have had the 4th gen freeze often while trying to shoot video.

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