Itunes Seems to Have Lost Almost all of my music - what to do?

Hello out there,
As best as I can recollect the events: I believe when I was loading a cd onto my itunes when a permission came up to download the new Itunes program, and I said OK to giving it access to the key chain, and then I went to open up another song on my music lest and Itunes couldn't find them.
I went to my find file, and it can't find the tunes by name of artist or album. I imported the .xml file into itunes, didn't seem to do anything. I consolidated the library, and
got little exclamation points next to each song, I went into the xml file and found that some of the songs that were missing were located in Users/myname/.Trash/.Itunes/.ItunesMusic,
but most were supposed to be on my backup drive.
I rigged up my Itunes to save my music on the back up drive as I have an older G4 and didn't want to run out of space.
When I search both my backup and my computer for mp3 files only a few come up that seem to have been saved in random places. Most of them are not found.
Nothing seems to have been put in the trash recently.
However when I go to the Itunes library file it says I have 5.9 mb of info on it.
So I am wondering where that is and if its all inaccessible now or what to do next?
Thanks for your help!

I don't know if iTunes lost my music or that a "helpful" boyfriend of my niece lost my music when is was trying to "fix" a problem. In any case all my music is erased from my hard drive ann now I have over 2500 song on my iPod and no way to get the songs back to my new library. Can anyone help or do I have start over?

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