Osx keeps losing favorites after ejecting drive

Hi All,
OSX 10.8.4 and maybe other's? I have an external USB disk connect directly to the machine and I can add folders that reside on it to the sidebar favorites without issue. However if I unmount the drive they all disappear and do not return upon reconnecting the drive.
Is there a way to have them stay in or return to the sidebar?
Thanks!

There should be a "Where" value as well.
_If not go to Go > Utilities > Disk Utility.
_Once you open Disk Utility, on the left you will see an icon for any drive mounted on the computer.
__Look for the name of this phantom drive that keeps showing up. It should be here.
_Click on it once and then look down at the bottom of the Disk Utility window, you should see a line that says "Mount Point". Let me know what this says.
In addition look on the left to see if the name of this drive is indented underneath another icon. If so click on that icon and see if there is information at the bottom of the screen that says "Disk Image Path" with a directory path "/blah blah/blah blah/" etc.
Also, check in Apple > System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items. Make sure the drive is not listed here.

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