Music library has disappeared

I have just noticed to my horror that my itunes library is empty. Looking in the trash I have found the songs listed individually amongst all the other rubbish. I had thought that perhaps I had mistakenly deleted the music or something equally stupid but now having fortunately found everything I wonder if anybody could advise. Firstly, I am surprised that the items aren't in a single 'my music folder'. Secondly, is the answer to drag everything back to the itunes icon. And thirdly, how did I manage to do this. I have recently updated itunes to the latest version, connected an iphone for the first time, and tried, unsuccessfully, to back up my music to an external hard drive. Thanks in anticipation.

Sorry if I've posted in the wrong place, still a newbie!!
I have windows vista, had no problems with itunes untill now. All my albums are still on my ipod on my iphone but they have all disappeared from my itunes library, its completely empty.
I've looked in the itunes file and that is empty too. Other than that I don't have any probs with my pc, but son't really want to have to import over 100 cd's again.

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