ITunes uses old library after OS X Yosemite upgrade

Hi there. In the last couple of days I reorganized my iTunes. Deleted songs, genres, renamed them etc. Today, I upgraded to Yosemite OS. The new iTunes switched to a library that hasn't got the changes I made. So it's an old library, not the newest one I had on Mavericks. I tried to restore via Time Machine (the .itl-file), and when I open iTunes it looks fine, but after a second it starts refreshing the library and the old one is there again. :-( Any ideas?

Thank you very much for responding! That seems like the logical thing to do - and I did it. But it's the same as before: At first, the new Library is shown, and then a popup-window appears and the library is "aktualisiert" in German, meaning updated, and after that it's the old one again... :-(

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