At the mercy of iTunes - the horror of random annihilation.

I'm furious. Has anyone else found that iTunes periodically 'forgets' your entire library?
"What? Music? No, no, I'm empty", iTunes insists.
"What!? What about that 13gb that I've spend years compiling!?", I stammer.
"H-have we met...?"
It seems that I am under constant threat of total wipe out. This is his third strike and I'm simply not taking any more. Previously I just begrudgingly re-ripped my entire library and let my beautiful play counts die. But not this time.
Three completely random, seemingly unprovoked, wipes are three too many.
The most annoying thing is that each time is exactly the same. I just open up iTunes as normal and there's nothing there, no music, no playlists, no play counts - it's totally blank.
iTunes has bullied me long enough. Please, I am on my hands and knees, somebody help me! I've read about library files but I need clarity. How can I resurrect my old library, play counts and all?

*How can I resurrect my old library, play counts and all?*
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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