Opened itunes, all my music but bought from store is gone. Help!

I've used Itunes since my old click wheel ipod, haven't connected my ipod to the computer in over a month (still haven't), basically use the program to listen to music while messing around on the computer. Opened it today and all of my music, movies, videos are gone except what I've purchased from the store. Got on yesterday and the cloud symbol was doing something, did that mess up my stuff? I have over 3000 songs, I really don't want to have to re-load everything into itunes.

Purchased music yes. Movies, no
It is important to keep a backup
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519

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