HELP! After installing itunes 7 my library crashed and is now gone!

Hopefully someone can help...
After installing the new iTunes version it was working fine for a day or two. Then it started acting funny and one day started adding files from throughout my computer without "asking". The next day it started to tweak the library by itself and crashed in the middle. After rebooting the computer i found that all my itunes library was gone. Not the files, but everything i had up on it (all file names, ratings, playlists, etc). is there any way to recover this? I tried reloading the library with my .itl file from the itunes, and upon locating it i found it with titled "itunes library(damaged).itl". No other programs were installed with itunes other than the apple auto update, which i think may be the culprit. That's all the info i have. Please help!!!!
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