Loosing render files in Premiere

I'm running Premiere CS4 on a Dell T5400 running Vista 64 bit.
Recently I added a firewire 400 external drive and since then I'm occastionaly loosing video playback render files and am having to rerender.
I first set the media cache files to the external drive, however set them back to the main drive. I've since then had to rerender my project several times. Any ideas on what the problem could be?
Thanks!

Colin,
I thought that the "lost render files" was an issue that 4.1 was supposed to address. Sounds like it was not, or that there is something else going on.
@OP,
What are your Clip's full properties? Any similarity to what Colin mentioned?
Good luck,
Hunt

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