Itunes 11.1.5 crash, wiped out library and now not opening files

Itunes 11.1.5 crashed on my Mac OSX 7.5, wiping out my Itunes library and playlists. I have the albums on my hard drive but can't even open them with Itunes now (I can open them with other programs). I've tried redownloading Itunes thinking that somehow the program was damaged, but same problem with the fresh download. I have my playlists etc on my Ipod but don't want to do connect it until I'm sure that Itunes is functioning correctly- am reluctant to risk losing the data on my Ipod too.
What's wrong with Itunes that I can't open or add any files? And once that is fixed, is there any way of recovering my past library and playlists? Or if not, how do I safely transfer my Ipod's data to Itunes? It is not all Itunes purchases.

Okay, an update. Weird. I tried importing a cd into Itunes, and not only did that work, but when it was completed all the music from my hard drive's Itunes media library appeared in Itunes too. Not the playlists, but at least the albums. Odd, since for hours this morning I couldn't import even a single song. Assuming I have to manually recreate the playlists, that there's no easy way to recover those. At least Itunes appears to otherwise be functioning tho.

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