How to recover from an "iTunes Library Damaged" error message?

When I looged on this morning, I recevied an error messages saying that my iTunes library was damaged. It asked if I wanted to save a "(DAMAGED)" version of the library. I said yes, and now iTunes comes up blank...no songs, no playlists, nothing. I have located the file marked (DAMAGED) but I can't figure out how to get my library to load up in iTunes with all my playlists, etc. Anyone help me...My iPods/iTunes for Dummies Book and The iTunes for Windows Book just aren't helping.
I don't want to hook my iPod up in fear of losing all my songs on it.
Anyone have ideas on how to fix this...hoping not to have to load all the songs 1 by 1, as that would hurt!
Sony Vaio Windows XP

Try this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93313

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Assuming you have AVG then yes, a second patch has apparently been released to day which may resolve the issue. See this post for general advice.
If you don't see the .itl file extension then don't add it to the filename of the renamed file.
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My advice has generally been aimed at Windows users, but if you have AVG on a Mac and that too suffers from this issue then it is worth nothing that at one point the iTunes Library on a Mac was stored without any extension. If you match the name of the empty library file you are replacing it should work.
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The last time I got that error message iTunes had partially completed an upgrade, all I had to do was click on the upgrade icon on my desk top and it completed. Now I can't get into iTunes to click on the original "upgrade" button to get the process started.
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Instead of deleting the Videos/Podcasts/Party Shuffle lists, go to your Preferences and turn off the display for those items. That should eliminate them from reappearing within iTunes.
If that does not work, then your iTunes .pref file may be corrupt or read-only. Try resetting/rebuilding your .pref file. It may have gotten corrupted and is causing a strange save issue (big guess). Make a copy of this file and save it in case you need to restore it.
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Hi KimberlyWI,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. If you're not able to access the iTunes Store, I would suggest part of this article:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3297
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From Syar2003 21-11-04 03:02 Thread 5 Short Beeps
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