Itunes went CRAZY...help!

so i'm VERY angry with itunes....after a routine restart, itunes automatically started up (like i have it set to do) except 9/10 of my music was missing and it had deleted ALL of my playlists....it told me that it was going to label my previous library as damaged and start a new one....i found the music in the itunes music folder and started to manually put it back in but about halfway through my 60 gigs of music (sigh) it froze and i had to restart the entire computer....and NOW when i open itunes it starts to do the gapless playback CRAP, and i have to quickly quit that before it freezes or i have to restart AGAIN....
after that lengthy explanation my question is:
is there anyway to get my old library with all my music and playlists back??....or if thats not possible to get itunes to stop acting up and actually enter in all the music again?
please help...thanks
-Lisa

To stop the 'gapless' playback stuff - in the player window at the top of iTunes - click on the 'x' and it will stop.
MJ

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