No more library

I updated to the latest version of iTunes last friday. I have used it on and off since then. Today I opened iTunes and it has a new empty library. It did not ask if I wanted to open a new library as if I had held shift, It did not say that my previous library was corrupted.  My music still in its folder on another drive, but I have no library  for it.
There is only one set of ITunes library files in mydocs/my music/iTunes. The library file is 4kb and the xml is 12. There are severl backups in the previous libraries folder, but the latest one is from March. The temp files that look like backups of the library XML file are ~30meg up until the middle of april, then they skip to a few days ago and those are ~4meg.
I think there was a windows update done recently that restarted my computer. iTunes may have been open at the time. Has an automatic update ever messed up an iTunes library? I tried doing a restore, but it did not restore my library.
I dj so am constantly adding and sorting music, so going back to the beginning of may is just not acceptable. This is days of work I've lost. I have some of the recent changes in Traktor, but it would still take forever to copy all that into iTunes.
Ths *****, help.
Dan

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