I have made a very similar experience, downloading and installing many packages and I thought they were save in the archives directory. After a while I have discovered that many had disappeared, although Synaptic was set to keep the packages. I thought at first, that maybe ATPonCD had erased them but, after Mario Splivalo's bug report I checked more alertly and it really seems to be the update manager. Only the number of packages can be checked (as they are many) and directly after update obviously the number had increased but, after a restart suddenly they had decreased again. So it is quite unclear what is happening in that directory, under which rules is it administrated and which processes do have an impact on what it is in and what not.
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