Moved library - poof, missing songs and data

I recently purchased an external drive to hold all my music and free up some of that precious internal drive space. (Link to drive at bottom.)
I moved the whole iTunes folder to the external drive, redirected iTunes to use the library on the external drive and everything worked just fine.
Then, several hours later 90% of the music was gone. Poof. Literally there one minute and gone the next. The external drive is an NAS drive so I can log onto it via a web browser. Doing that I could see that the data was still on the drive because the corresponding amount of space was marked as "Used." But via Finder, I (and iTunes) could only see 10% of the music.
I reformatted the drive and recopied all my music onto it a second time. Everything worked great. Then, the next day, all the iTunes database files from within the iTunes folder disappeared (all of the music was still there this time).
I've contacted the drive mfg (LaCie) but their very first reaction was say this was all iTunes' fault and not their problem to solve. I told them that I followed proper iTunes procedures and am still waiting to hear back.
While I'm waiting, I was wondering if anyone knew if this is a known iTunes problem, if anyone else has had this problem or if there's some trick anyone knows to fix this.
Thanks a lot.
damien.
Drive I bought: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10844

I really hate saying this but itunes seems more like a Microslop program than an Apple program. Every version gets buggier and buggier all the time with no fixes, just another crappy version that makes the previous one be better.
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