I  updated iTunes and Safari and my iTunes library has vanished

Help, earlier today I was in Safari and it got hung for so long (10 or more minutes) that I turned to computer off by pressing the power button (I know this was not the best course of action, but I couldn't remember the keystroke command to force quit and I sure couldn't look it up because my browser was not responding). Okay, so when I restarted my computer kindly notified me that software updates were available for Safari, iTunes, and two security items, so I clicked to load them (I've had some annoying reauthorizing when doing this with iTunes before, but never a big problem). So the computer restarts after installing and I go to iTunes and there is no library, no playlists, nothing that was there before. I still have everything on my iPod, but I don't know how to retrieve the lost stuff (and no, I haven't backed it up, I have the ipod and the cd's and presumably the itunes store will restore my purchased files if it comes to that). If anyone has experience with this please guide me out of this tragic debacle. Thank you!

Look in your Users > [username] > Music > iTunes folder. What's there?
When you say you have "everything" on your iPod, is that "everything" that you are missing? If so, you can use Senuti (http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/) and reverse copy it.
From what I understand the iTMS will not restore lost music.
PowerMac G4 933 MHz, 768 MB RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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