ITunes folder suddenly empty

All my music and apps, everything suddenly disappeared from the iTunes. I have no idea how this happened but I had like 4000+ songs on it and am so ****** right know because this is the work of few years. I read apple discussion site and found a possible solution for me to get back my itunes library back to normal with all the play counts etc on it, because to keep this is extremely important for me. It told me to get a previous itunes library and saw that the previous update was before today, like 03.07 or smth, and the only one that was from 2011. so I did what they told me to and updated my library back to it, and before I noticed, I thought this should've been 03.07 like it is in europe but mistakenly I had updated back to 07.03. There was no updates after this and this means I have an itunes library which is 4 months old and a lot has changed in this time in the library. Please can someone find me a solution how to get my itunes library back to what it was few days ago? I would appreciate this a lot!! Thanks

i just migrated all my mp3's over to a new computer. installed the latest version of itunes 6.
when you open itunes on a 'clean' install, there are no songs in your library folder.
so what i did was copied 5 gigs of songs into the default itunes folder into "my documents/my music/itunes/itunes music" folder. to be honest, your 'music' folder can be on any local drive on your machine. i just put mine where i can access it quicker than a networked drive or itunes sharing from another computer.
then in the 'file' column, i did "add folder to my library" to load the songs into the library. after about 15 minutes, itunes had all 5 gigs of my songs. i'm listening to my itunes as we speak.
good luck.
btw- if it doesnt do it the first time.
un-install itunes, re-start, install itunes, re-start, then do the above...

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