** HELP NEEDED ** Lost everything on iTunes !

Hello there !
Hope someone can help me !
I opened itunes tonight and when it opened, it was like it opened for the very first time after installing. No music or apps etc! The "Itunes setup wizard box also opens" - (this box has opened the last few times ive opend itunes but when i click cancel, my library is there !
why would everything get deleted and itunes open as if i have just installed it ?
Can I get everything back to how it was ?
If not, i have all my music files on my laptop however i will have lost apps and music that I have paid for from the app store ?
Thanks very much for your time. I have googled the problem but to no avail.
Thanks
Jonathan
(A very worried iphone and ipod user!)

mimico kid,
I checked my recycle bin and nothing is there. I had a friend of mine who is a programmer and has been fixing bugs for 10 years look at this thing and he said he's never seen anything like it. He thinks they're there, because something has to be taking up all the hard drive space, but can't find it anywhere. Also if this helps at the time I had my Dell hooked up to my new iMac trying to transfer files. I'm not the most computer savvy guy but I tried. I don't think I succeeded with the transfer because I can't find the files on the Mac anywhere. But I'm not to good with the Mac yet. Also the Mac hard drive is 240 GB and shows only 215 GB available. This may be normal, but I haven't put anything on the Mac. Maybe the included software is that large, I don't know. Well thanks for your input.
chrismo

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