Library of 81000 songs just got deleted -- PLEASE HELP ASAP! :(

Hi! I have (well, had) my itunes library on an external hard drive ... I started itunes like I always do (with the drive attached and on) and I got an error saying "could not import library .. renamed library damanged (or something like that)" Then, about 200 songs came up in the ipod library, with ALL of my playlists gone .. the songs/files are still on my hard drive, but is there ANY way to get all the playlists and everything else back???
Utterly frustrated,
Eric

You could try a system restore point to before the date that it happened.
Do this by going to Start->Help and Support. Click on the button that says "Undo changes to my computer using System Restore."
If that doesn't work, then you might be out of luck. All of your songs and all of your ID3 tag data should still be there, but your playlists will be gone. Do NOT SYNC your iPod, as you can manually add all of the music to playlists on your computer just by looking at your iPod. It will take a long time, but it will work.
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