I HATE iTunes to my guts!!!!!!!!!!!!! :[

For a company that advertise ease of use, acompany that trumpet user friendliness, , the iTunes is a biggest piece of junk! Worse than any Windows apps I had used! The UI is confusing which leads to a very, very bad UX. Among many bugs, my imported CDs keeps diisapering from my library and the worst thing is I spent $15.00 on a Bach album awhile ago just to find out today that it isn't in my iTunes Library. I searched for the album, it clearly states that it was purchased but I kept getting the preview page with only excerpts. I went to Apple's own iTunes support site, the instruction is very unclear. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance.
Needless to say, I am using the latest iTunes 11..2.2
Here is the full instruction:
iTunes 11 for Mac: Download previous purchases from the iTunes Store
You can download many types of content previously purchased from the iTunes Store to your devices andauthorized computers. This way, you can add items to your devices and computers without having to sync or copy files. It’s also useful if your iTunes files are lost or deleted for any reason.
Previous purchases may be unavailable if they are no longer on the iTunes Store.
Note: Some types of previously purchased content might not be available in some countries.
Download previous iTunes Store purchases to an authorized computer
Click iTunes Store near the top of the iTunes window.----------------------------------------------------------------------WHERE IS THIS?
Click the Purchased link at the right of the iTunes Store homepage (below Quick Links).-------------------------WHERE IS THIS LINK?
In the page that appears, select a category.iTunes shows you which of your purchases are available for download. You can view all of your past purchases, or just the ones not currently in your iTunes library. Items already in your library aren’t available for download.If you select Music, you can view your purchases by song, artist, or album. If you’re viewing by album, click an album to see which songs on it are available for downloading.To search for an item, type its name or a keyword in the search field, and then press the Return key to view your search results.
To download an item, click its Download button .To download all available items, click Download All.
You can also download previously purchased music, movies, and TV shows by clicking the Download button next to an item in your iTunes library.
To hide previous purchases you haven’t downloaded yet, choose View > Hide Music in the Cloud. This also hides any iTunes Match songs you haven’t downloaded.
You can download previous purchases on a total of up to ten devices and computers, combined. You can authorize up to five computers at a time with an Apple ID.
To find out how to download previous purchases to your iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad, see the documentation for your device.
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Long story short, iTunes F*ing booted up when i plugged in my iPod and updated my iPod with his non-existant music library on the laptop i was using. All my music - gone -
I'll explain further if you enjoy reading.
Now i KNOW that iTunes is notorious for doing this(i've had some close calls in the past), so before i plugged in my iPod i checked in the preferences to see if i could turn off auto-update before plugging in my ipod (My friend has the latest version of iTunes, version 7.2. I think the layout is ugly buggy. I use the old version 6 becuase it works and simple). Alas, there were no such options that i could find, and i looked multiple times. I know on the windows version that i use, you can "Manually update songs and playlists" through the preferences tab.
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