My iTunes deleted everything in my library, again!

My iTunes has been messed up before, and I lost a lot of music, but I let it go and just restarted everything. But for the past few months it was working perfectly fine, and I got most of my music back. But the other day I clicked on iTunes to listen to music, and everything that was there before was absolutely gone. No music, videos, apps, e v e r y t h i n g. I dont have a Sony Vaio, so I cant use other answers that other people have gotten. I'm to the point where im absolutely clueless on what to do, and I really need help! Thanks!

c4pr1sun wrote:
I tried making backups but it never worked.
and then?
Your computer loses stuff, you can't make backups so just do nothing?
If you do not have a backup...
You can download iTunes purchases again.
See this -> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Everything else is gone.

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