Am I Losing A Decades Worth of iTunes Now?

I AM asking a legitimate question just please hear me out for once. And also pleaes understand: disabilities come in all forms. I'm not one of those jerks who has whatever the issue du jour is and takes it and claims that its my "thing" and that you cant use it to discriminate against me or I'll run off and "tell" - I mean I really do have brain damage and its very hard for me to make my point sometimes....so if I dont get there quite as fast as you want me to please just please please please STOP deleting me.
I mean I should think that the thousands of complaints all over the internet are enough to show there is some validity to mine that my posts would not need to be deleted on the basis of not meaning anything. Or however it its being put. And if I forget to dot an i or cross a T please dont get rid of it for that either just let me know and I will fix something!!!!! The problems themselves are God-awful enough just dont make it worse by stifling me here on the only place that I thkn I can go to for help.
OK ....so...thats kind of out of the way. I'm on a Mac. I've got the new iTunes. Its horrible. I dont see the majority of my music and even less of my audiobooks. I see about 75% I guess? of my apps. Those have never gone missing before. And the thing I've never bothered mentioning before just because all of the other issues are just so much more important is that all of my ringtones are also gone. I dont even know what else is gone or misplaced or screwed with to the point of super-user unfriendly becuase its just all so not user-friendly! And just like I've been forced to think and say constantly the past several months ever since this has become an epidemic with other websites (so if I mentioned this on previous posts...maybe I am repeating myself, but this IS what is happening!) these guys in Geekland are just having a ball showing off their skills. Here's what its like: Its like we live in a society where only a few people do all of the cooking. And those few people just now discovered pasta. And they're really excited about it. And they REALLY want us to know just how excited they are about pasta. So now every single thing we eat & drink has pasta in it, whether its needed or wanted or relevant to anything at all. Pasta, pasta, choke you to death on pasta whether you like it or hate it, pasta. But what they need to realize is that we have got years of our lives invested into other foods - whole gardens & stores buiilt up on other types of foods! Eating macaroni 3 times a day might be good for some dude in Silicon Valley who wants to be a show off, but its creating a morbid obesity epidemic and leaving all of us constipated.
So anyway, tech guys at Apple, I am very happy for you that you discovered all these amazing designs and layouts & whatever that you can do with iTunes but stop forcing them upon us just because you find it exciting that you can come up with innovation. A. maybe we are NOT impressed,maybe we dont care. B. Maybe we would like to be left the heck alone....never asked for it? and C. now what is happening for the first time ever is that I am growing resentful of Apple as a company & considering doing what I never thought I would. Need I even mention what that is? It sure would save me some money. (I was sort of broke when I got this and found a place that let me finance this on credit...i was on a message board once & mentioned that I have a MBP and someone just slaaaaamed me for being a member of the bourgeiousie or however you spell it. I was like yeahhhhh...youre real close.)
Desperately trying to revert back to an older version but its nearly impossible when youre missing (literally) an entire chunka brain. (mamillary gland) I do get around semi-fine - other parts always make up for lapses in 1 part of the brain but its not the easiest. So I try to do things with 2 windows open or using a paper + the laptop or my phone + the laptop or whatever but just depends what I've got going on at any given time. So Operation Try To Downgrade iTunes has gotten NOwhere so far.

You may find making iTunes 11 look more familiar is an easier option for you.
From the top menu
View > Show Sidebar
View > Show Status Bar
lick on the blac arrow in search and untick Search Entire Library.
iTunes should now look more like you are used to. You may find you do not need to downgrade
Ringtones are now called Tones and are at the top in the left hand panel.
Here is a link on how to revert to the earlier version of iTunes
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/audio/3415214/how-downgrade-itunes-11-itunes-10- in-mac-os-x/

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