ITunes v7.7.1.11 for Windows hosed my Library!!!! - FIXED

I just installed the latest version of iTunes (v7.7.1.11), and after doing the requested restart (unusual for iTunes upgrades), iTunes started and gave an error saying that my iTunes Library database was corrupted and that it had renamed it as 'iTunes Library (Damaged).itl', after that iTunes opened but all my music was missing!! Ouch!
On looking in Explorer I saw that the files were still all in their correct place on the HDD of my system, so I then immediately made a copy of those files (all 18Gb) to an external HDD. I then went and restored the 'iTunes Library.itl' & iTunes Music Library.xml' files from a 2 day old backup, overwriting the files that iTunes had automatically created when it started on the first start after the upgrade. And hay-presto, everything was back to normal All the music was in place and playable!
A second error message did start to appear during this process, saying that the Registry settings for burning music to CD's were missing, so please re-install iTunes. I did do this before restoring the above files, using the 'Repair' option that was presented to me. After that I rebooted, restored the two files mentioned above and everything is working fine again.
So my advice to anyone thinking about upgrading to version 7.7.1.11 of iTunes is to make a copy of the following two files;
1). iTunes Library.itl
2). iTunes Music Library.xml
These files reside in the 'iTunes' Folder in your 'My Music' folder.
I hope this helps!
Jonathan.

I would strongly recommend that anyone makes a back up of the two files mentioned above before every upgrade of iTunes. Doing so will I'm sure save a lot of heartache!
JRP

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