ITunes song keep disappearing from iTunes

Hi,
A brief explanation. I decided to copy my 6000+ songs from iTunes to an external Smartdisk as a backup. I simply dragged the Itunes library folder from the iMac home icon and saw it copy to the smartdisk and entitled it Itunes Aug 07. Then I went to play my songs in iTunes and none were there at all. They were now all on the smartdisk.
I dragged the folder back to the iTunes library.
This took some time, but was unsuccessful as many songs were not imported back to the new iTunes library folder. I am continually confronted with the exclamation mark in the source window and the warning that the original file could not be found and would I like to locate it!
I tried consolidating all music from the Advanced menu, but this did not work. I still have to open the Aug 07 folder and manually drag songs to the new iTunes library folder. I can play the songs once i have dragged them over, but once the computer has been closed down, many of these recently dragged songs disappear again from itunes with the above explanation and I have to manually drag them back to iTunes.
The songs involve include those purchased from the Itunes store and songs imported from my Cd collection.
It is very infuriating as you can imagine and I just have run out of ideas.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance. George UK

George-
It sounds like what you need to do is to set up iTunes to store your Music Library on the external drive instead of the main drive (I'm not sure what a SmartDisk is).
I haven't ever done this myself, but here's an article on how to do it.
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/19/how-to-keep-your-itunes-library-on-an-external-ha rd-drive/

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