My songs have disappeared!

The last thing I did was consolidate my library, but there are now no songs in my itunes program or in My Music folder. Any ideas what has gone on? Must admit, I'm a bit clueless with the whole itunes thing - new to it!
Any help MUCH appreciated!
Amuth

Just done a thorough search of computer and folders etc and no sign of my songs. I only had about 20 or so and planned to burn them onto a cd as I don't yet have an ipod.
I did do a disk clean up and defrag yesterday which may be the culprit?? I did system restore, but still got the problem.

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