Help! My iTunes is BLANK! NO songs! =(

I opened up my iTunes to listen to some music (duh) and NO songs! ALL my songs and playlists are gone. My other account (on the same cpu) wont even pull up iTunes. PLEASE help me!!!!!!
.x.Jordan.x.

If the music and videos you had in itunes were purchased from the itunes store or ripped from a cd, the default location for them would be in My Music/iTunes. If you imported the songs from other locations, they could be anywhere on your computer
Try searching your computer first for *.aac or *.mp3.
Here is an article from the itunes support website that might help out.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/lostmusic/
Also, it itunes will not open, here is an article from the apple support website that might help out.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93313

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