Damaged library - Recovered - Lost 1000 songs !

I have Itunes 10.3.1.55, didn't upgrade to the last version yet. The day before it happened, I sync my ipod and ipad fine. I had 7900 songs in itunes, on a Network Drive...everything was perfect. Now the day after, I reopened Itunes and for unknown reasons, it Was saying that I had a damaged library, Itunes opened with no songs in it !? I went to my Itunes library and found out it has renamed my old library to "Itunes Library (Damaged).itl" and other files like Extras and Genius and xml...all ending with "(Damaged)" at the end of their name.
I restarted Itunes by holding the Shift key so it asked me for a library. I selected the damaged one and it started reimporting everything in Itunes. I was relieved. After hours of extensive work, it told me the library was damaged...so now I got Itunes right, my playlist seem ok but more than 1000 songs are missing in Itunes !? It created a new "Itunes Library (Damaged) 1.itl" with a significant small size compare to the old one. So now I have "itunes library (damaged).itl" at 1,425 kb, "itunes library (damaged) 1.itl" at 232 kb and "itunes library.itl" at 425 kb. Not sure on the sequence of the events too, I guess I would have to look at files' date&time.
1. should I try to reopen the damage library ? The largest one ? The smallest one ? Will it morelikely empty the current one before reimporting another ?
2. if not, how could I reimport all my songs (1000 missing) that are still on my drive ? Do I have to identify the missing ones one by one ?
Thanks in advance,
Nicolas

Buegie has a post on that
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1745081&#1745081

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