All my playlists are suddenly empty overnight.

In the past four months, iTunes has gradually been asking to authorize my computer for more and more of my songs from an old, invalid email address. It's doing this for more and more of these. Even though I remember the password, put it in, try to authorize, and then it tells me it's already authorized. Then when I try to play the song, it asks again. This has been happening to more and more of my songs, even some I know I purchased with my newest Apple ID. I have been unable to fix this with helps from the community. Nothing works. I had a bug (From MacKeeper, thanks very much), an Apple store had to recover all my files, and it's happened since then. So, for the past four months, all my music has been gradually becoming inaccessible. I have been in chemotherapy since July, so unable to get it to the Core. When my computer shut down back in June when I was in the middle of a bunch of surgeries, and they had to retrieve files, they said I would have issues, but I had no idea it would wipe out all my music, thousands of dollars worth, plus original music written and performed by my own children, GONE. Of course, I should have backed up to an external hard drive, but whenever I tried, the files would copy onto the drive. Then I would try to import them into iTunes to make sure it would work and again iTunes would say I wasn't authorized.
Should I just do a gut check and toss this computer and start over from scratch? I hate to be a curmudgeon, but I am about ready to go back to CDs.

Wow, I guess it just takes a while after reopening. It's all there again. Gave me a scare. Thanks anyway!

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