Upgrading to 7.5 Completely Removed My Library From ITunes

I wanted to buy a new albumn last night on Itunes and was prompted by the Itunes store saying I was required to upgrade to 7.5 in order to order this albumn (apparently it wouldn't play otherwise?). Thinking I was safe, I said ok and did so.
I have 2 Ipods on this computer, each linked to its own separate windows account on my computer, and have never had issues in the past having 2 versions of iTunes with separate libraries, etc.
Now, after performing this upgrade, only 1 of my Ipods appear to have a library when I open up that window account's iTunes. So 1 Ipod/iTunes library is ok - the other not so much. While iTunes opens up for the 2nd one, it shows a completely blank library, no playlists, etc. I've had this iPod, playlists, etc, for years now, and if I've lost them and have to create new ones and/or add all my songs (3000+) back onto this iPod, I'm going to flip - this is absolutely ridiculous -i'm told I have to update my software to buy new music and now i've lost years worth of music and playlist management all because of this 'required' update.

iTunes uses 2 different library files: iTunes Library.itl is the actual database file that stores where the songs are on your computer and playlist/playcount info. There is also a file called iTunes Music Library.xml which has a lot of the same info, including song location and playlist info; you may be able to restore from this .xml file since the .itl file obviously got messed up in the upgrade.
I'm not sure this will work because whenever you close iTunes it saves the library, so this file may already be overwritten. In iTunes, go to File>Import; when the window opens, you should be in the My Music>iTunes folder; select the 'iTunes Music Library' file - this is the .xml file, not the 'iTunes Library.itl' file. Importing this way does take a really long time, but I have successfully restored my library including playlists this way.
Another option is searching for any .itl files on your computer - there might be an older .itl file you could restore to. You can either try searching your computer or open My Music>iTunes>Previous iTunes Libraries and see if there's an old library in there. Will probably be named 'iTunes Library 2007-11-07' or something similar - it will be dated whenever the last time you updated before this was.
You have 2 choices to open this file - the first is more permanent and faster in my opinion.
1. Quit iTunes and then copy the old library file from the 'Previous iTunes Libraries' folder back into the iTunes folder in your My Music folder. Then rename this file 'iTunes Library.itl' - you want to replace the current 'iTunes Library' file which is blank. Then try opening iTunes again.
2. Quit iTunes. Hold down the shift key and restart iTunes from the Start menu - not from the desktop icon - and keep holding the shift key down while it opens. When iTunes opens you should see a little window that asks if you want to create a new library or choose a new library - select choose library and you should be able to navigate to where this old library is and open it from there.
You can apparently keep 2 different libraries on one user - see http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/7.4/en/15502.html
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