Music plays, playlists are there but the song list is empty!?

The strangest things has happened with iTunes 7.3.2 today: all the playlists are there, I can even play the music, but the song list window is totaly empty! How has this happened and what can I do to restore the list?
I've checked the .xml library file and everything seems to be all right in there. I've even tried recreating it but that didn't help.
The last thing I remember doing with iTunes was creating a playlist and burning it as an audio CD.
When I try any kind of operation on the playlists, the iTunes crashes down. When I start it, it normally loads the library as if everything is fine.
When switching between the playlists, I can play each individual playlist but I can't see any content. The song list window is just blank.
Has anyone experienced anything like this? What can be done apart from recreating the whole library from the scratch? There is over 65 GB of music in the library on the external drive.

Problem solved. First I've tried importing from the .xml library file but that didn't help. As a last resort I've re-installed iTunes completely and everything is back to normal now.

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