ITunes can't find my playlists after upgrading to 10.3. Help!

iTunes automatically upgraded to 10.2.2. When it finished, none of my data was visible. No music or play lists.
After checking the web, it was suggested up re-boot the computer. Didn't change anything.
Another suggestion was to re-install iTunes. When I did so, it showed 10.3 available. So I downloaded and intalled that. Still no existing information showing.
So I had iTunes search for my music. It found some/all of it. Haven't checked yet.
But NO playlists. Is there a way to find them and load or am I just screwed by the upgrade and have to start over?
Thanks for any help you might have on this.
Thanks!

I would recommend you put everything including th eiTune slibrary files into the iTunes folder on the external.
This way, you will not have any issues when moving th eHD anywhere else. The entire library will be on it.
Quit iTunes.
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ from yoru internal to the external.
Move your current iTunes media folder on the external into the /iTunes/ folder you just copied to the external.
Hold Option and launch iTunes.
Select Choose library and select the iTunes folder on the external.
Now you can plug in the external to another/new computer and launch iTunes holding option as above and everything will be there.

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