ITunes 10.2.1 wiped out everything

Hey! Automatically installed the 10.2.1 update last night. Opened iTunes this morning and guess what? No music, no podcasts, no nothing at all. Looking in my music folder in my home folder, seems like everything has been deleted. The album artwork and iTunes media folders are both empty save for three empty folders between them.
Two questions - is there a quick way to restore everything? And why, oh why?
Many thanks in advance for any thoughts

nonamay wrote:
Looking in my music folder in my home folder, seems like everything has been deleted.
odd. are you sure ? did a spotlight search ?
if your media files are still there, take a look @ [this|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1967] support article.

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