Uninstalling iTunes & reinstall iTunes~will I lose my library?

I've been prompted by error message to uninstall and reinstall my iTunes. Will I lose my library? (Error message 2).

Even if I didn't purchase files from iTunes store? I have mostly shared files from another application that were transferred over to iTunes. I just found an article about how only iTunes purchases will automatically be saved as well as files that are directly from CD's and the rest of the files could be lost. I don't have a back-up... tried to access my library files through my user folder (i'm on vista) and I can't even do that!

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