Music tracks lost in Elements Editor

I create photostories of collected photos, import them into my catalog and then create a slide show in the Editor. I also add music tracks.
Has anybody had a problem with the music tracks being gone upon restoring a backup? In fact, all of my backups are missing the music tracks when restored!! I now have little confidence when doing a backup that the music tracks are included!!
Any advice or help?

Hi Barbara:
Thanks for your quick reply. However, I have restored backups of Adobe PSE before and it always included the photos and music tracks that were in the project. My music files along with all of my pictures are kept in a Adobe Folder on my D:drive. I regularly do a backup especially if I was working on a new project and wanted to save my work.
About a month ago, I messed up a project and restored a backup file which had all my other projects and music tracks. It correctly recovered everything except the projec that I messed up. If I restore that same backup today, the music tracks are gone from all of my projects and I don't understand why.
When I finish a project I either send it to Premiere Elements to add menus and either burn a DVD or write a .WMV file. If I don't use menu's I just output the project from PSE as a .WMV file. Thankfully, I have a .WMV file for all of my projects!!
Any other advice or assistance?

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