Upgraded to 6.0 and entire iTunes library has vanished...?? help!

can anyone please help me??? I recently upgradsed to the 6.0 ios and lost ALL of my music not only on my phone but I can not seem to locate it in my iTunes folder either

Look in your Users > [username] > Music > iTunes folder. What's there?
When you say you have "everything" on your iPod, is that "everything" that you are missing? If so, you can use Senuti (http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/) and reverse copy it.
From what I understand the iTMS will not restore lost music.
PowerMac G4 933 MHz, 768 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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> Downloading past purchases from App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
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