HELP - Afraid to upgrade my iTunes!

I have not upgrade iTunes in QUITE some time, because the first and second times I upgraded (years ago) I lost my entire music library and playlists. That was then. I downloaded the few dozen songs from scratch and, yes, paid Apple AGAIN for those that I had already purchased but had not burned. Now I am being told that I can no longer download songs without upgrading, and I have HUNDREDS of songs that I am terrified will be lost in the upgrade. PLEASE, give me advice. Is there is anything I can do prior to the upgrade to prevent my library from being lost? I'm not a computer whiz, so if you have instructions for me, please give them to me like you are instructing an idiot. I'm wondering if I could purchase a memory stick and put all my music on that, upgrade iTunes, and then move the music back over after Apple wipes out my library. What do you think? THANK YOU!!

If that is the case why have I just finished reading a recent thread with over a thousand views about this same problem.
I accept that there are a lot of people who have not experienced problems but just look at these forums to see how many people have!
It is all very well saying you have not experienced any problems but I have now spent 3 full evenings trying to get Itunes to work. (and I am far from alone in this) I am relatively computer literate and have tried all the fixes suggested - still nothing.
I am just trying to prevent someone else from experiencing the same frustrations as me.
My advice is to wait until these obvious bugs have been fixed before downloading any updates - just keep checking on these forums and you will soon see when the problem gets solved.

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