Lost all songs after iTunes 7 upgrade

Hi there,
It seems that I was a little too quick in updating this time. iTunes 7 seems to suck !!!
After having several problems with installing Quicktime during installation I finally got everything installed only to find iTunes completely empty !!! Now there are MANY hours of work put into having this program the way I wanted it - any ideas on how to get back to the good old days???
I tried System restore, but that didn't work...
TIA
Jan

It's quite simple. You have your files stored in a different folder than the default one.
In iTunes click on Edit -> Preferances
Click on the Advanced tab
Change the iTunes music folder location.
Follow the prompts to reload most of your old music.
I say most because a few of my purchased items dissapeared, not all and I was able to get all but one back from apple. The one I couldn't get they basically told me tough s*t on.

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