All songs and playlists erased!

Last night I was cleaning up the computer a bit...I moved a bunch of files off my computer's hard drive onto an external hard drive, but did NOT touch the location of my music files (most of my ipod songs are mp3s that I've pulled in). I also cleaned out my internet temporary files and cookies and stuff, and performed a disk defragment.
Now, today when I opened itunes, all of my songs and playlists are gone - it's completely reset as if it's never been used....
Anyone know what's up?
Thanks!

Try holding down the Shift key in Windows when opening iTunes. In the resulting dialogue you will get the option to create a new library or navigate to an existing one. The default location for your iTunes library is in C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\ (or C:\Username\Music\iTunes\ in Vista). Look in there and see if you have more than one library file (they have the extension .itl) If you have more than one try opening them in turn, you may find your original library is still intact: How to open an alternate iTunes Library file

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