Changed 'artist' name--lost their albums!

i changed one letter from lower case to upper case & all albums for that artist disappeared. 'undo' was not an option. these are wav & mp3 files of live music i downloaded from a digital recorder. how can i restore the albums? thanks!
Mac OS X (10.3.8) itunes 6.0.2

thanks for helping. the songs are not deleted, but the albums were. i had maybe 30 albums containing almost 1,000 songs.
Check your iTunes music folders in finder. Songs are
very rarely deleted unless you specifically do so.
Try typing the names of certain songs into finder.
Hope it works,
Audrey
Mac OS X (10.3.8)
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