All playlist folders contain the whole library

Hi everybody,
I recently updated iTunes to the newest version and now ran into some problems.
First off, everything was gone from the libraryl, no songs, no playlists, nothing. I then tried to recover this by using this guide http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451.
This kind of worked, but now I have a new problem.
Most of my songs seem to be back in the library. However, I also had playlist folders containing playlists. If I click on those folders, it doesn't only show the content in the playlists, but all the content of the whole library. This means in every folder, about 450 interprets are shown, even ones that I did never put into those playlists.
I tried to delet stuff from those folders, however, that does not work. It just doesn't delete it, but gives no error message whatsoever. I can hit delete as many times as I want, still the songs remain in the folders.
The weirdest thing is, that if I go through the playlists, the songs are in none of them. Example: let's say the folder is called A, and contains the playlists B and C. If I click on A, it shows me my whole library. If I click on B and C, each of the lists only show the songs that should be in there, but not the rest of the library.
I have no idea why this happens, nor have I found any solution to this, and it is very annoying, since this basically messed up my whole organization, and I can't even reorganize it, because it won't let me delete anything.
I also want to add that I can very well delete items from the library, just not from the folders.

See Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash.
tt2

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