Itunes just deleted a big chunk of music from my ipod and will no longer let me create a playlist.  It also deleted my playlists.

My ipod stopped playing music today. It was just skipping everything, so I restarted it, as per Apple's instructions on their troubleshooting page.  Then, when I plugged it into Itunes, it started syncing to the computer, which was fine, until I realized after that I was missing loads of music, including but not limited to, my entire Beatles collection, which I do not own on CD anymore.  What happened, and how do I create playlists again?

I've since tried restoring from the Previous Itunes Library folder, but even files that date from times when I am 100% positive the missing music existed both on my laptop and my ipod, the songs are gone. Which would make sense, if itunes somehow managed to delete the actual files from my hard drive (how?!)... Does anyone know how or why this could have happened? I believe this happened after updating to the previous version of itunes (I upgraded to 11.1.3 after noticing the missing music, in hopes that it might undo the damage, but no dice).

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