All music gone after backup- totally lost!

I have somehow managed to lose all my iTunes music. Over 8000 songs. I made a backup with SuperDuper to external hard disk and after that only some music was left. There seems to be however files left because space on my laptop has not freed.
When I'm trying to find some artist/songs using spotlight I can get result as many iTunes Music Library.xml-files. So this might means that music exists but where?
How do I know which is the right file and how can I get my music back?
I have read all possible in this group but didn't find a right solution.
Could you all experts please help!
Thank you in advance!
Powerbook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Not sure what you did - I use SuperDuper! and I've never seen that before.
What are your settings in SD!?
Also, if you backed up to an external drive, you should be able to mount the drive and find everything as it is on your Mac.
Look there first.
Scott

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