Problems using Lightroom wtih external Hard Disks

I having some problems with the latest Lightroom 1.2.
I import images (NEF+JPEG) onto my internal hard drive and everything is fine. Images look good and thumbnails display NEF+JPEG at the top right.
However , as soon as I move them onto an external drive (using lightroom) I start to have problems. First the thumbnails display JPEG+JPEG. Then all the images become wildly oversaturated and contrasty without me doing anything. Moving the images back to the internal HD (using lightroom again) causes only the JPEG files to be moved back. Of course the wild colour stays the same.
FYI I am using a Macbook Pro, 2GB RAM, OSX 10.4.10. External HD is 500GB with 150GB free

mmm, I have a similar problem - I bought a hard drive as my i-tunes library was eating up space on my laptop. It was fine at first, but now when I add cds it updates my i-pod no problem, but if I try to create playlists it says it can't find the tracks. I've tried consolidating my library but it didn't work. I'd be interested to know if any of the helpful suggestions you get work.
Good luck and sorry I can't do anything other than sympathise.

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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 06:45:55 -0700
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