Upgraded to 7.0.2, suddenly 2/3 of my music is gone. what now?

The subject line says it all: huge amounts of my music vanished after I upgraded iTunes. What the ****?! Fortunately, most of the missing stuff was from CDs that I own, so it's not like I can't get it back, but: 1) it's a freakin lot of work & 2) I'm not even sure of what is missing (since we're talking hundreds of songs vanished) -- until I look for a particular song & it's not there, which is what happened just now. But most of all, software should not behave like this!
What I want to know is: did my music just get hidden someplace else on my computer? (Spotlight couldn't find anything.) What do I do when I figure out something is gone that I'd downloaded? Is Apple going to fix this problem???
Thanks in advance for all advice, wisdom, consolation, &c.
1.9 GHz Imac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  
1.9 GHz Imac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

The following Apple link refers to iTunes 6 and later.
Read the procedure slowly and very carefully before you start moving Folders, especially the renaming of the Previous Music Library folder. I also recommend a Restart before relaunching iTunes.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301895
Stay cool!
DIXIE
15"iMacG4/800/60GHD/768MB-12PB/867/60GHD/1.12GB-G3/400/1GB   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   AE network

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