ITunes Library damaged. Lost months of work. Now what?

Ok, so I tried to start iTunes a couple of weeks ago and got the "Your iTunes Library is damaged..." problem. I have been searching the web and there forums for a solution but haven't found any solution.
The old tricks: So I tried to delete the newly created "iTunes Library" file, and rename the "..(damages)" file. Also tried the same thing with my Time capsule backups. Same problem every time. So my library is actually lost? I don't think i'm ready to accept that.
Sure my music (16.000 songs) is still there and can be reindexed into a new library. But i've just spent months ranking nearly all of my music. Endless hours have been put in to rank my music to make it easy to listen to the best music through smart playlists and so on. That can't just go away because iTunes has a bug.
So what do I do now Apple? Why is there no tool out there to fix a damaged iTunes Library file? Or at least something to extract song rankings etc? This just ain't good enough.
I need to have this fixed. It's especially annoying since I know that "damaged" file is full of the data i've spent months creating. But I can't get it out of there. It's not like the file is corrupted/non-readable og anything like that.
Please reply to this one Apple. This is pretty bad and it looks like there are hundreds (thousands?) of others having these problems regularly.
Best regards,
Thomas Kulvik
Ny Media AS
<Edited by Moderator>

Thanks for replying. However, that is not a solution in my case as it results in me loosing all my song rankings (about 14.000 of them). And when trying to copy back older versions of the Library from backup I get the same error message.
Anyone?
-Thomas

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