Hopefully this is a simple problem....

I opened up my iTunes this morning to rip more music into it, and my iTunes was completely empty. It had all of the original folders along the left hand side that come when you first install iTunes - it was as if I had never opened iTunes before. My computer shut itself down last night (dontcha just love it when that happens??!) and I was in iTunes when it happened, but that has happened before and I've never had iTunes try to wipe itself out like this.
I went into My Docs -> My Music -> iTunes -> iTunes Music, and sure enough, all of my music was in there. Which I was eternally glad to see, because I thought for a moment that all of my music had been completely erased. It's there, iTunes just isn't seeing it, and I don't know why.
When it comes to iTunes, I've never really messed around with it at all - I just ripped music, rated it, and called it good. So I'm rather in the dark when it comes to knowing how it works, where the music is stored at, etc.
I would really like to have everything back to the way it was before, if at all possible. If I have to go through and rerate 7 days worth of music, I will - it's better than losing the music altogether - but of course the best case scenario would be to get my iTunes back to the way it was yesterday. I hope to hear from somebody soon.
Thank you very much,
Havs

Thank you so much for your help. I went ahead and just used your last solution, and did Add Folder to bring all of my music back. It seemed the simplest solution. I did do a backup of my computer onto an external hard drive, but it was a month ago, and I have added a lot of music since then, which I didn't want to lose by restoring my last back up. I'd rather rerate my music than rip 50+ CDs again.
The irony is, the night my computer shut itself off and corrupted iTunes, I had thought before any of that happened, "I need to do another backup of my computer. I'd sure hate it if I lost all my music." Then I told myself that nothing was going to happen to my music, and that I needed to stop worrying. I decided I'd just do a backup the next day. The next day, iTunes was corrupted. Gotta love it....
Anyway, I'm off to start rerating my music. Thank you very much for your help. I truly appreciate it.
Havs

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