My Music Library Is Messed Up.

Okay here's the situation...
I logged onto my account (on XP)
I opened itunes
I hooked up my ipod
And then i tried synching and it wiped my ipod clean, then i tried playing music and it siad it couldn't find the file.
Any ideas on how i could get all my music back without pay a lot of money??? I had 4000 mp4 files on there.

yeah i have a similar problem. it seems that when i open my itunes library, i tunes can only find/play the music that i bought from the itunes music store. it will not play any music i added to my library from CDs. i get the prompt, "The song ***** could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" sure i would, but where is it? i thought all music i uploaded from cds go in to the i tunes library, but i don't see any of that music in the i tunes library. then it tags the song i tried to play w/ an exclamation point in the far left column.
i'm running 7.0.2- i wish they would quit messing with this stuff for just a little bit.

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