Deleted Songs

PLEASE HELP!!!
To my amazement, one day I start getting the notice that"iTunes cannot find this song." iTunes is right. All of my songs have mysteriously disappeared, yet the play list under MY Doc\My music\iTunes\itunes Music\ still shows the name of the playlist as a folder. Inside the folder is another folder named "Album Unknown", but it is empty.
Pretty sure I don't have a virus I run full Symantec protection constantly and it has never reported one. Have run 'searches' that turn up nothing.
How could anything have drilled down that far in a path to delete just the music and not all the folders that lead to it??
My Library still shows all the songs but then says it can't find it, The 'Purchased Music' Still shows that I have purchased them but I am told that I cannot download them again. ( I know backup, backup, backup) I should know better. I guess I just assumed that iTunes would run along the same lines as Audible.com. Once yours always yours.
Can anyone out their help me???? I can't believe I have just lost all that time, money and beautiful music.
Thanks

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