Deleted my itunes library, how to restore or redownload?

i recently deleted my itunes library by mistake.  i thought i had only deleted what i wanted to delete by instead the whole library is gone.  is there a way to recover it or is it gone for good?   i've been trying to re download the previously purchased from itunes music by it keeps taking me to the new itunes download page which i can not download because i'm using osx 10.4.11.  as long as i can get the music i had gotten from itunes, i'll be ok.  other music i had on there was downloaded from cds i had.  thanks for the help.

No backup is not good at all.  This is very basic.  Please start backing up your computer.
Here is info for redownloading purchases:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

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