Lost iTunes with lion

I purchased Lion from the app store to use the cloud and now I lost Itunes.  If I reinstall it will I lose my library?

After trying a few things (as suggested by the Apple website) and going nowhere...I called Apple. It is free for the first 90 days that you have Lion on your computer. And since Lion had eaten my ITunes library, I qualified for the free help....
In the end, the solution was to go to ADD TO LIBRARY and chose the ITUNES folder. Everything came back. I'll have to redo the individual playlists, though. Oh. Well. Case closed.

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