Vanishing or Disappearing Songs and Albums

I have a problem with iTunes that I can't work out how to fix.
Albums/songs that I have downloaded in the past appear in iTunes fine. Albums/songs that I am downloading now (either from a CD or online) appear in iTunes initally but then 'disappear' when I close iTunes and then reopen it. I am also unable to tansfer these albums/songs onto my iPod. I'm not really sure when this started happening but I haven't purposely changed anything on my computer. I can get them back by clicking on File/Add to Library but then the next time I close/open iTunes they have gone again.
I have searched on this forum and found some similar problems with people who have Vaio computers and have followed all the suggestions e.g. deleting Vaio media programmes, chaging Vaio services to manual in Task Manager and unistalling/reinstalling iTunes. None of this has made any difference (and I haven't had this problem the whole time I have had this computer).
Looking at the albums/songs in Windows explorer I have noticed a difference between the ones that don't vanish and the ones that do. If I right click on a song or album in the iTunes folder (which is on a NAS drive) and look at Security tab the the ones that don't disappear have different 'group or user names'. The ones that don't disappear have ' Everyone', 'Unix User\nobody' and 'Unix Group\nogroup' whilst the ones that do disappear have 'Everyone', 'Unix Group\users' and 'NAS-02-8A-5B\MyName'. Why is this? Does it matter? All of these group/user names have special permission and on closer inspection this means they can do everything.
One thing I can think of that has changed in the recent past is that I have a Roberts Stream 83i attached to the wireless network and this accessess my iTunes songs. Would this have an effect?
Please help. I don't know what to do now....
Thanks in advance.

Well, after literally hours of messing around with various things on my computer I have finally managed to sort it out and I thought I would post my findings here in case anyone else encounters the same problem.
First I updated the firmware on my Netgear ReadyNAS Duo to version 7. This solved the problem of encountering error messages every time I tried to import a CD - I was only able to download one song at a time. I'm not sure if this was related to the permissions problem or not.
Next I went to ReadyNAS Frontview and changed a setting in the Share Listing section to "Set ownership and permission for existing files and folders in this share to the above settings. This option is useful in cases where you are changing security levels and need to workaround file access problems".
This seems to have fixed everything. Not being very computer literate I'm not sure why so if anyone could enlighten me that would be great!
Dibsy

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