Help! My iTunes no longer shows my collection

My music library and playlists have become the default iTunes showing only the purchases from the last 2 weeks. There were a couple things new that I did, one or both of which must have affected this:
I moved my iTunes library, following accurate directions, to another hard drive. Its path is correctly shown in iTunes/Advanced.
The other day I deleted an email address (which had been my Apple ID), and made the proper change of email address on Apple's site. All was well.
Today when I went to purchase something from iTunes, the account listed was the old email address, and when I entered my password, it did not accept it. So I went into the account and changed the email address to my new one, which had already been changed at Apple.
In iTunes, there is none of my original stuff there, only default folders and only showing the few things I downloaded recently.
Should I have deactivated account? How do I get my stuff back? I don't want to use the iPod to transfer the stuff back into iTunes because iTunes had more stuff than I put on the iPod.
I do have the library backed up, and it is still on the hard drive. But what happened, and what should I do to restore myself? Thanks!

Solved it. Hold down option (alt) while launching iTunes, and it asks to locate the iTunes library. Point it at the file called "iTunes library". All is back where it belongs. Apparently pointing to it in the Advanced tab wasn't enough.

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