All my music has disappeared from my itunes library!! HELP ME!!!!!

Ok, I was listening to music from itunes last night. I turn on itunes this morning and all the music that was there the night before has disappeared! I checked my "My Music" folder and all of my music placed after the "iTunes" folder has disappeared. This is extremely unusual and I dont understand it! Please HELP!!!
Packard Bell Windows XP

It could be anything. First scan with your antivirus program, and scan for malware using your adware/spyware program or Ewido http://www.ewido.net/en/download/
Also it could be your antivirus/security suite blocking iTUnes from writting to the folders it needs.

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If you are lucky you may be able to recreate your library using the method here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93313
If that doesn't work you can just add your iTunes Music folder using "Add Folder to Library", that gets your music back in the library but loses playlists and ratings etc.
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Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I understand you are missing some media from your iTunes library upon upgrading. Here is an article that I would recommend going through for this issue. This article also includes the library file location.
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