Lost library and playlistgs/smartlists after upgrade

I just downloaded the latest itunes and have lost about one third of my library and all play lists and smart lists. poof! I have searched the hard drive and all of the music is there in the music folder (including that which was not included in the library after the upgrade - why wasn't it all put back in?). So my questions are: (1) Is there any way to retrieve the smartlists and play lists? (2) How do I get all of my music from the music folders into the library?
Thanks.

I'm having the same problem on iphone4. All my contents on my iphone 4 are lost after I upgraded it to ios 5.1.1. That is includding my contacts too.
Every time I connected my iphone4 back to Itunes. It showed a pop-up menu said " Itunes was interrupted while restoring the contents of the iphone, would you like to restore this iphone again now?" but when I clicked "continue restore" button. It showed another pop-up menu said "an error occurred while restoring this iphone(-50)."   Please see the pictures at below.
I think all the backup contents are still there. I have googled about this problem. I found many people has suffered this, but I couldn't find any solution.
Please help! Those contents are so important to everyone of us, especially the phone contacts. Thanks!

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