Podcasts gone AWOL

Greetings;
Today, after not using iTunes for several days, I opened it to refresh the podcasts for the trip to work. Clicking on the Podcasts source, the content pane was empty! No Podcasts at all! I had built up a nice list of podcasts over the years, now all gone!
Searched the discussions and kbase. No joy. Went to the Advanced prefs and pointed again to the music folder on an external drive where it has been for a long time. Selected File > Add to Library... and pointed to the Podcast folder on the external drive, but the added items were not the same as last week, some kind of subset from months ago.
Searched for how to rebuild the database and came up with a "re-create" procedure that sounds extreme and will require I export all of my dozens of playlists one by one and later add them back, Ouch!!!
Good golly, what is going on here? The music, movies, books seem to be fine, iPhone sync'd fine to all other tabs. It's just the podcasts, that are gone, gone, gone!
AAAaaarrrggghhh!
Any ideas? is there a rebuild or something less extreme than deleting the database completely and adding all the playlists back?
Please help, Sincerely, dave

Chris, thanks. A follow up if you don't mind.
I have iTunes pointing to a folder on an external FW drive where there is a folder with folders inside by artist name. At one point in the past I just told iTunes to put the music there using the specified procedure for moving music to an external. Still, in the iTunes folder in the Music folder, there are folders for Album Artwork, iTunes Music (containing only a few folders and a podcast folder that doesn't match my lost podcasts), and Previous Libraries, an iTunes Library file and an iTunes Music Library.xml file. The latter two show modification dates in 2006, which furthers the mystery.
So, specifically, when you say restore from backup, do you mean something like trashing the entire iTunes folder but not the music folders on the external? and then going to Backup (the app) and restoring the most recent iTunes folder from there?
Thanks.

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