Repairing damaged itunes files

Hi, not sure what happened but i went into my itunes one morninging and found my library file was damaged and a new one was in place. the new one only had a few of my songs... i lost play lists and almost all my music. any way to repair the old damaged file and get my play lists and music back? PS I have minimal computer knowledge.. Thank Q !

I'd love to know an answer to this one too. Better yet, is there any reason why iTunes just decides to randomly corrupt the library in the first place? It's really getting to be extremely annoying dealing with this once every handful of starts, especially when I have to resync my iPod up with a "new library" each time.

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