Album titles gone

Hello,
I recently signed into iTunes (after a while away from the computer) and found that all of my iTunes album information has been deleted. Over the years I have painstakingly gone through and added the album name for all of my songs (around 1000 of them) and suddenly all of the album information is gone. Does anyone know why this happened and/or how to get it back without having to manually input it all again?
Thanks!

I think it happened after I updated to the latest iTunes.

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Jerry<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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