Time Machine and iTunes Issue

What I'm using first: OS X 10.7.1 - iTunes 10.4 - 1TB external Time Machine Drive - apx 90,000 songs - A big pain in the a**
So I had a problem with about 90% of my music file paths being not correct and iTunes not finding the files. Basically I had about 40GB of music on my internal HD and the remaining 400GB on my external. I wanted to move my 40GB to my external and have iTunes recognize this. So I make a backup before I do anything and begin working on it. Copied the 40gb to the external and deleted all my iTunes info with the intent to re-import the music and then replace the .xml file so I would have all my playlist, play counts, ratings, ect. I had read a “how to” and understood the process and all would have worked well if……..
The Time Machine does not have the .xml file and is missing about half of my old music in that same folder. Why in the world would Time Machine not have my old .xml file anywhere? I ended up looking through ALL of my old backups dating back to June and not one is there….
Is there any way to find/recover this file?

Solved! At last!
I cannot say exactly which step was the key, so here are most of the steps I took. Hopefully this helps someone.
1. Took the steps in Invalid or incorrect Certificates including reboot.
2. Took the steps in Edit your Keychain including reboot.
3. Downloaded and manually reinstalled Security Update 2015-004.
4. Repaired permissions and directories with Recovery reboot.
5. Took the steps in Invalid or incorrect Certificates including reboot.
6. Took the steps in Edit your Keychain including reboot.
I've gone through some of these steps multiple times, just hoping it would work that time...
Today -- when I went into Mail.app, it whined about the certs for me.com servers -- so I made *that* always trusted. And this time, iTunes.app didn't complain about any certs! And this time, Software Update.app didn't complain about any certs! And it successfully applied the three-week delayed updates!
So I'm hoping it's all done and done. OMG, frustrating along the way!

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