My keychain access file for passwords has wiped itself

I have a serious problem. I have gone to open the Password file i have in my keychain access under secure notes to find that the file is empty. No prob I thought... use time machine to get the info.... what is happening is that everytime i use time machine i find the file STILL empty and the date modified as todays date.......
every single password, code number, access code, pin ......evrey single piece of info i hae on everything from tax to bank to you name it, is in that file and without it i'm *********....
what i dont understand is why is time machine defaulting back to today and an empty file...surely the idea of time machine was to enable you to go back and back up any file folder etc that had destroyed corrupted or otherwise disappeared...
please help or I'm in serious trouble.....

Hey!
I had this problem, too!...
To copy the music back to your HD try "iPod -> Folder" <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/35148>.
But I think that you must already have the music on your PC...
After you have copied the music back to your HD, you have to restore the iPod with Apples iPod Updater <http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/>. After that, your iPod should work better than before!
I hope and think that should help!

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