How do I revert to a previous iTunes library?

This morning my iTunes showed that the last thing I imported was back in mid-December but I have imported many disks since then. I found the music files in my iTunes Music folder, so it's not like they got deleted or something. It looks like my iTunes has opened an out of date library file. How do I find the curent one and get iTunes to use it?
thx
"Lily" my PowerBook G4 1.67GHz Mac OS X (10.4.4) 60GB iPod 5G
"Lily" my PowerBook G4 1.67GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   60GB iPod 5G

Just so you're aware, one can delete entries from the iTunes Library without deleting the associated music files from the hard drive. iTunes uses the iTunes Library file that is in the user's Music : iTunes folder. You can conduct a search of your hard drive and see if there's another iTunes Library file of more recent vintage. If you're successful, you can swap into the proper location. However, if you haven't intentionally been maintaining multiple versions of the library file for your own, special music management purposes, then what's more likely is that your iTunes Library was accidentally changed.
Good luck!
iMac G4 17; iBook G4 1.33 Mhz 14; iPod 3G 20GB   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

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