Unrecognized Library since 4.9

I'm operating Windows XP on a Gateway Desktop and have my iTunes music stored on a Maxtor external hard drive (for storage space purposes).
Everything has worked fine with my 40GB iPod until I downloaded iTunes 4.9 (I believe - maybe it was 4.8).
Upon downloading, my library was no longer recognized in iTunes. I then would get the "...iPod is linked to another music library...do you want to change the link & replace all existing songs/playlists w/those from this library [YES] [NO]..." message. I've always clicked [NO] because I never had to do this with any previous updates and didn't want to lose anything (mainly playlists).
Now that 5.0 has come along, I downloaded it & it still gives me the same warning message. I've tried Dmitry's solution:
Dmitry Byk, "Success! All fixes together in one thread...step-by-step...", 12:19am Sep 11, 2005 CDT
but have has no such success.
Should I click [YES]? Is this the natural solution? Am I being overly paranoid? Is there a reason it no longer immediately recognizes my library?
Please help...

Clicking "yes" will erase the iPod and sync it to your current iTunes library. If you have all the same songs and playlists in iTunes that you have on the iPod, then it's no big deal, it'll resync them to the iPod.

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