Upgrade to iTunes 8 and Music Vanished!

I cursory search didn't find anyone else with this problem. However, I don't think I can be the only one...
I upgraded to iTunes 8 on my MacBook without issue. I upgraded to iTunes 8 on my iMac and most of my library vanished. Gone. Arrrrgh. I carefully tested iTunes 8 on my MacBook before upgrading my iMac - which holds my rather extensive 12K+ file library on an external drive.
In iTunes I select my "Purchased Songs" and nothing is found - the "i" error. The iTunes database still accounts for all the songs, and yes, the Preferences are pointing to the correct folder.
I had turned on the genius option and played with that - kinda cool. And generally poked around at first and didn't notice anything missing right away.
I have downloaded a few free HD TV shows, so if they went missing before that, I'm not likely to recover anything now (data overwrite).
A cmd-i on the iTunes Music folder in the finder now says 577 items - which means 12,072 files went missing, randomly. Pre-upgrade TV shows (Dr. Horrible, etc) and all the podcast are gone (except the ones that auto updated after the upgrade). The files are actually missing - missing from the hard drive - and I didn't delete them. I last did a back up about 6 months ago, but have added a bunch since. And, yes I know I should have backed up before upgrading. But geeez, holy s*t - most everything gone!
Any suggestions?

Ditto on your loss. I lost nearly 6000 songs with the upgrade. I still have them on the I-Pod but not on the computer. As a result I cannot attach my I-Pod to the computer as the syncing would take away what is on the pod. Most of the songs are in an archive but it would take days to transfer them over to I-tunes again. Is there a way to back load from the pod to the computer?

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