ITunes randomly deletes folders from my iTunes system directory

I am running iTunes v7, "I have the box Let iTunes manage folders" unchecked, I have no folders in my iTunes list. I select "Add folder to library". At this point iTunes imports the majority of the albums contained in the iTunes directory on my disk, those that it doesn't it DELETES from my system. This has happened on two different systems so now I have a copy elsewhere on the disk of all the albums in a directory structure. However, how can I stop iTunes from randomly deleting these albums - I have checked to see whether iTunes has just moved them somewhere else, it does not, they are deleted.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Ray

I have an Intel based PC with XP Pro. I have had the same problem as the rest of you for 5 years. I have e-mailed Apple 3 times sans response. I searched the Internet for solutions. I have done what several of the suggest but still the problem persists. I had almost 13000 titles of music and old radio shows. Some I uploaded from personal CD's. Some were downloaded via an online music service. I can play a piece one day and the next that line has an exclamation point in front of it. I have lost entire works by one artist due to this problem. I am fed up with reloading the music and losing it. iTunes either has no answer or does not care. I asked about any limitations on the database manger, no answer. I asked about database limitations, no answer. I saw a post two years ago from a husband wife team that had 18,000 titles and had now lost many of them.
If there are complaints, there must be a problem. If there is a problem, there must be a solution. I spent too many years testing software professionally to think otherwise. If I do not receive a response from iTunes in the near future I will find another database to move my music too.

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