Help, I lost my library.

I got a new 80G ipod for Christmas. I think I did everything I had to do to get it up and running. I loaded lots of music and quite a few podcasts into i-tunes and synced them to my ipod ok. When I went back to the i-tunes to add more all the previous ones were gone. (they were still on the I-pod) I started getting an error message that my library was in another library. I hunted my whole computer and could come up with nothing but empty i-tunes. I went ahead and loaded more music into I-tunes. Then I probably made a big mistake. I hit sync. It replaced all the new music with the old stuff. I am also getting messages that I-tunes has caused an error and needs to shut down. It asks me if I want to send a report to Microsoft - which I do.
Are my files gone or in hiding? How do I solve?
Thanks a bunch

Check the Back-Up/Library info on this page: http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/
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