Will reinstalling itumes delet all my music?!?

My sister went through our computer last week and deleted some of her own files off of our computer because she was leaving for college and got a new laptop. when i try to open itunes it says "Itunes cannot run because some of its required files are missing. Please reinstall Itunes." Will I lose all my music if i reinstall itunes?!?
em

in the course of various troubleshooting experiments, i've uninstalled and reinstalled itunes three times over the past month or so. haven't lost a song file or playlist.
... that being said, it's still a good idea to have backups in case of disasters. this Buegie post is a good resource on that:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=2538235

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