Help! - I upgrade to itunes 6.0 and all my music disappeared

I've had itunes for I while and I had a fair amount of music on it. My computer has been asking my for a while if I wanted to upgrade to itunes 6.0 and I always said no, but recently I did it. Now all of my music is gone except for the last two songs I ordered from the online music store. Can I get my music back? Or how can I at least not do this again? I didn't read any warnings whatsoever. I assumed "update" the program features would be updated but all the music files would be retained.
heeeeelp.
inpirson 8000 Windows 2000

First of all, this will occasionally happen after an upgrade. Your music is NOT gone, as iTunes does not store your music, your hard drive does. iTunes only holds the file paths in order to reference the songs by. Now, you will simply need to add them back over. Very simple, do this:
Click on File on the iTunes Task bar
Click Add Folder to library and add your iTunes folder back over.
It won't take but just a second.
Rachyl

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