All my music suddenly GONE!

Please help! I installed the iTunes update Wednesday night and Thursday night, everything was going fine. Then on Friday, I opened up iTunes and ALL of my music and my playlists were gone! I know I didn't do anything out of the blue to accidentally delete it all. And now, when I plug my iPod in, iTunes says that it is synced with another library. All the files still exist on my computer and I am properly logged in to the iTunes store and my computer is authorized.
Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know what's going on? Is there a way I can transfer EVERYTHING from my iPod to iTunes (I am desperate to keep my playlists)? I would greatly appreciate any help.

See if this link helps.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301895

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