Music and Playlists Keep Dissapearing

Yesterday night is when I first started having this problem. I opened up iTunes and all my songsvideosplaylists were gone. I had no clue what happened because all my music was still in their folders. So I decided to re-download them into iTunes and left it be (the weird part is that as soon as a told a friend of mine this he had the same problem, I must be cursed haha). A few minutes ago I opened up iTunes and had the same problem. So I uninstalled iTunes, and then reinstalled, redownloaded all my music. Then to test it I exed out and opened up again, and sure enough I had the same problem (My friend did have the problem today though). Anyone have any clue whats happening?

Nevermind, I've "fixed" the problem. I messed around with the files in the iTunes folder and found that the iTunes Library file was corrupt (and unreadable). I deleted everything but that (because it wouldn't let me delete that file), renamed the folder that file was in, and reinstalled iTunes.

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