ITunes Library in disarray after update!

Okay, so I've noticed that while more than a few of us are having problems with iTunes after the new OS/iTunes updates, no one has really been having my issue. It seems that my iTunes library across the board (Music, Movies, TV shows, etc.) has lost all the content that isn't iTunes store content. All my playlists are gone as well.
What does show up in my library are all my itunes store purchases, however they don't seem to recognize that all this content is on my hard drive since the icloud button is beside each song/episode/movie.
Going to my iTunes music folder shows me that all my content (even the stuff that's supposedly missing within iTunes) is still there so why does iTunes keep ignoring all the content in that folder? Why are the tv shows and movies still on my HD reading like they're just in icloud? Why the heck are the songs I ripped from CDs not showing in my Library? Where did my playlists go? Is anyone else having this issue?

Davis, I really appreciate the quick response to my problem.
Unfortunately neither of the links provided addressed my issue. I just had to suck it up and re-add everything to my Library, which was still a pain but not overly difficult seeing as all my content was still in my iTunes Music folder.
I did have to spend an hour or so re-naming and sorting files that weren't from the iTunes Store which got annoying pretty fast. Luckily iTunes Match stored my playlists so once I got everything in my Library squared away I turned on Match and playlists came back.
I still have no idea why updating Mavericks/iTunes made such a huge mess of my media files this time around. Nothing like this has ever happened to my iTunes content before.

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