Repaired ext. HD. What to do with Lost Found folder?

Hi All,
OSX Mavericks, Macbook Pro 2010 + Western Digital MyBook External Harddrive
I recently deleted an empty partition from my external HD (WD Mybook, 1TB). I then wanted to resize the remaining partition (still containing data) so that it could use the full 1TB capacity. This process failed and, after googling the problem, I verified and repaired the volume (using Disk Utility).
Following verification the harddrive still contains all of my backups and some other folders but also contains a Lost+Found folder with 23061 items in it (each a dir_# folder containing files e.g. keyedobjects.nib. This feels bad!
I googled Lost+Found and understand that these are orphaned files. Feels really bad now.
What would you advise I do now? Is there, perhaps, a way of reuniting the orphaned files with their parents?
As I only verified/repaired the external HD, are these orphaned files all originating in the same HD or have they been amassed from my laptop's HD and perhaps indicate a more serious problem with the laptop itself?
I don't want to lose the files on this drive (this contains an archive of my PhD documentation, numerous projects I've been involved with, a/v documentation).
Thanks in advance for all of your time and help,
Nick

Ok, I've had a better look at OWC and you might well be right! Great prices if my conversions are correct.
Csound1, would you be willing to go beyond the call of duty and tell me whether this combination makes any sense (to my untrained eye this looks like a tasty deal, 3TB for approx $189/£112):
Enclosure: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/MSCKIT0GB/
Bare HD: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Toshiba/DT01ACA300/
Cheers,
Nick

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