Itunes/ipod is erased after trying to back up to external dr

I have 15gigs of music and was backing them up to my external drive. But i got an error code after it started to update the previous file " could not read file xxxxx" then would stop copying. Thought it was odd so i dragged another file that I had backed up before... same msg. I just dragged the file to the icon for the external drive. I think I might have put the itunes folder on the desk top and opened it up. And tried to drag the individual folder to the external drive ....didn't work. Got frustrated so went to bed... pluged the ipod into the computer and it froze... rebooted the computer and now the ipod and my itunes library are empty.... When i tried to look in the folders seems the file contents are empty or hidden...My ipod photo albums is still intact and the file shows the same.. empty or hidden files. I also have files on the external drive.... but after some thought they were saved with a prior version of itunes not v. 6.0.
I guess i really don't know where to start....I did a spotlight search for M4p files and got zero
Help... I also used backup to restore the music file names but it did load the way I thought it should.
600 albums gone! I going crazy. I dont believe i have deleted anything intentionally. Thanks

Eric, welcome to discussions! You probably want to re-post in the Mac forum as you have posted in the Windows forum.

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