ITunes deleted everything but purchases

At least half of my iTunes library is made up of songs that have been imported from CD's or downloaded online. After the last "update" for iTunes, 11.1.1, it deleted everything but the purchases. My 5th Generation iPod Nano has everything on it, but all I'm able to do is transfer the couple of purchases that it deleted. This is the absolute worst thing an update has done so far. Is there any way to fix this? I tried using Time Machine, but it doesn't seem to have any of the deleted songs in it. Adding all the songs back one by one would take weeks.

+On a side note, what's up with all of the ".tmp" files in my iTunes folder. I have 123 of them...+
That's been seen when other programs interfere with itunes saving its database file. The important one is the ITL file. All the others (XML, genius, extras)can be rebuilt from the ITL.
Did you recently update or install some security software? How about backup software like Carbonite or Mozy? This kind of software is notorious for scanning the itunes iTL file and putting a lock on it - while itunes is trying to update it.
You need to configure whatever other software it is, to not interfere with itunes.
If the photos are only on the iPod, yes I am fairly certain you will lose those photos if you sync your ipod to a different library. If the photos are on the PC you can always rebuild the itunes library and sync them back to the ipod.

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Time Machine in OS X Lion includes a new feature called "local snapshots" that keeps copies of files you create, modify or delete on your internal disk. Local snapshots compliment regular Time Machine backups (that are stored on your external disk or Time Capsule) giving you a "safety net" for times when you might be away from your external backup disk or Time Capsule and accidentally delete a file.
So what makes a notebook any different then a desktop, other then with a desktop you might have your tm backup drive connected all the time.
The object here is to not indiscriminately delete files you need or want to keep. I personally have never deleted a file I wanted to keep.
In essence a backup is for catastrophic failure of your system. So it can be restored once that failure has been fixed. Not because you go in willy nilly and start deleting files.

ITunes deletes everything from iPod Touch when I try to sync.

This has happened to me five times now, and I am incredibly frustrated. When I start to sync my iPod Touch with iTunes, instead of actually syncing it deletes everything from my iPod (music, videos, podcasts, audiobooks, etc.; apps and other data aren't deleted). I have over 30gb of audio on my iPod, so it takes longer than 12 hours to get everything synced back up again. This first happened to me right after I upgraded to iOS 6, so I thought it was just a bug, but it has happened four times since, and three times in the last four days. I did a factory restore of my iPod last night and then synced it all night, and then iTunes just erased everything off again when I was syncing it again this evening.
Moreover, when I attempt to sync again to get my music back, iTunes only transfers some of my library. And each time I cancel the sync and restart it, the number of songs transferred over decreases. Sometimes soft resetting the iPod fixes this problem and allows the entire library to sync, but last time that wouldn't do the trick, which is why I tried the factory reset. It's still happening though, as I'm trying to sync right now and it's only showing 1500 of my 8000 tracks.
I have an iPod Touch 4G running iOS 6 and am running iTunes on Windows 7 32-bit. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I have a similar problem with my iPhone 4S running iOS 6 (Win7 64bit). When the first beta of iOS came out, I used the restore trick to load it on my phone without a developer license. I knew what I was getting into. This problem happened about 4-5 times through the various beta releases. When iOS was released to the public, it would not let me upgrade to it, so I had to DFU my phone to get it on the final release and restore a backup. Fine, but now I was on the official release. The problem has occurred twice now since then.
I sync my phone daily as I have a lot of playlists that use the "Last Played Date" attribute. I will sync my phone and the next time I go to play a song, all my music is gone. It is very intermittent. To fix, I have to uncheck all my playlists in iTunes, sync. Then recheck my playlists and have it readd. Like OP, I have 35-40GB of music, so it takes a long time to have to re-add everything.
I originally attributed this to a bug in the beta so I dealt with it. Now that I'm getting the error on the final release, its a bit more annoying. My wife has a 4S as well (Vista 32bit) and she has not had this issue.

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+On a side note, what's up with all of the ".tmp" files in my iTunes folder. I have 123 of them...+
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I tried making backups but it never worked.
and then?
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I just got back from vacation and hooked up my iPod and suddenly I got messages that my purchased songs weren't authorized (this is on the one and only computer I have ever used for my iPod).
After entering my username and password, it used up one of my 5 "other computer" authorizations. Now, I just added 1 GB of RAM, so maybe that's it, but this is bullcrap.
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As usual, DRM hurts the paying customer and does nothing to stop the pirates.

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Are you planning on leaving them in your will or something?
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