Error: The file "iTunes Library.itl" or "iTunes LIbrary.xml" cannot be.....

I'm trying to recover my playlist I spent a week on sorting music and after updating to the latest iTunes update it all vanished and all my music and playlist was gone!!!! ***????? Anyhow I read a couple of solutions on here to try to fix the problem but still the same results nothing! It keeps coming up with this ERROR: "The file "iTunes Librar.itl" cannot be imported because it does not appear to be a valid exported file.
Where do I go from here...PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!! Ihave this problem 3x's already and I am not about to re-create all 20 different playlist with over 8,000 music. PLEASE HELP!!

I have declined many of the updates, as they take so long to download on dial up...(yup, I live in the sticks!)....I am still running version 7.5.0.20 but cannot open iTunes at all and receive the error I posted earlier, and am wondering if updating to version 8 will rid me of the error, or make things worse?
I did a system restore a few weeks ago and am wondering if that affected my iTunes at all....just a thought. Still need to hear your ideas to fix my problem.
Jody

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