Itunes has lost some of my music

just downloaded new version of iTunes (BIG MISTAKE)... it has lost over 500 of my 10K songs - the song files are in the itunes media folder like all the others, but just random albums or random songs are missing. I thought I would just try to add the albums again and then use the display duplicates feature to remove the bad files... WRONG! There is no display duplicates feature. There is also no option now for adding a whole folder - I ahve to open each album and select the individual songs. I am not happy at all with this "upgraded" iTunes. Anyone have any ideas on either why this has happened or what I can do about it?

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