McBook Pro keeps losing my photos

This is very strange, and annoying. Please help me out resolving this issue.
I created several folders under "Documents", in the HD of my McBook Pro, 17", Core 2 Duo (purchased Jan 2007).
All is ok, except with the folder I created called "photos". It as several thousand pics, which I backed up on an external HD. One day, I went back to upload more pics, and I saw my "photos" folder in the HD showed EMPTY !! I used the finder to research for some photo names, and nothing. The photos were vanished from the HD. So I went to the external HD, and I could not see them there either !!!
I restated the laptop, and I could now see them on the external HD, but not in the lap top HD. So I uploaded them AGAIN from the external to the internal HD.
All seemed normal again, until one week later (today) when it is dejavou all over. Same situation. Very scary that the Lap top will do that, and very annoying and time consuming, since it takes several hours to upload all the pictures again.
Any ideas of what might be happening ??? Anyone has the same issue???
Thank to all in advance.
Pedro

Can I just ask; Why aren't you using iPhoto to manage your image libraries? (and keep the originals in /Users/yourname/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Originals)
Or, are you also using iPhoto at times as well as creating these other image folders in /Users/yourname/Documents?

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