My *entire library* is suddenly gone except for one recently imported music bundle.

a week ago i loaded/imported a large folder of music (gift with an e-book purchase) to my itunes music library. that went fine, but this morning i wanted to sync my ipod touch with itunes, and that recently imported content is *all that is there*. all of my other content is still in its subfolders of my itunes library on my hard drive, but itunes can't see it. the folder that it does see is parallel in the directory tree with everything else. the only other thing that happened, is my credit card expired and i am about to enter the new expiration date now. but all of my paid content *is paid for*, so i don't see why that would matter.
and of course, all of my podcast subscriptions and playlists have been wiped. AGAIN. itunes eats itself and my podcast subscriptions several times a year, but this is different. in the past it has just decided it didn't recognize my ipod, and wiped the device. i've also had it randomly decide that it didn't know i was subscribed to any podcasts. this seems to be different. i hadn't sync'ed in over a month, and it's just not 'seeing' content of folders that are already there. what's killing me, is that the podcasts are a *huge* hemorrhoid to restore. i subscribe to a lot of them, and they are all free, yet itunes routinely flags my device as a content thief and cleans them off entirely. this. should. not. be. this. hard.
no way am i connecting my ipod to this thing until it's fixed. anyone ever have this happen? any ideas how i can make it right? any ideas what *happened*, and and how i might prevent it happening again?
i would really rather not have to manually re-import all of those folders that i had already imported to itunes; and the podcast situation is untenable, because not only do i have to re-subscribe to everything -- i have to re-figure out which episodes i have and have not heard. i sometimes get a little bit behind on listening, and at the moment i am very far behind indeed. recovering them to where i left off *always* *****. not to mention the audible audiobook i'm in the middle of.
i've had my ipod touch since 2008.

What i would do (i'm not an expert) is make sure your library is definitely gone then go to Music/iTunes/Previous Itunes Libraries and copy the most recent iTunes library file (Ex. Itunes Library 2012-11-30.itl) and then go back to Music/Itunes and replace "iTunes Library.itl" with the one you copied (rename iTunes Library 2012-?-?.itl to iTunes Lirary.itl)

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