Windows 7 Automatic Update deleted my files!

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
Last night two updates were automatically installed when I shutdown my computer: KB976098 and KB915597
This morning when I turned on my computer, all my files appear to have been deleted, and although installed software is still there, programs (e.g. iTunes, Google Desktop) have lost all settings and act as though it were a new installed.
- over 200+ photos in My Pictures GONE
- entire iTunes music library GONE
- Desktop shortcuts GONE
- Programs pinned to taskbar GONE (reverted to original default so programs I had removed reappeared)
Oddly enough, everything in my Recycle Bin was preserved. The Windows.old folder was also preserved.
Needless to say, after my painstaking effort to upgrade to Windows 7 from XP, this is more than a minor annoyance. Everything is backed up (I think) so I should be able to restore what has been lost but WTF MICROSOFT?! If automatic updates are going to wipe out My Documents, a little warning.
Has anyone else had a similar problem?

Ok guys I think I may have figured this out although I'm not so vain as to think it will work for everyone. I'm hoping it does though and I would appreciate you letting me know if it does. Here goes:
Last night 5/25/2011, while surfing and studying I ran across a website about accounting. I'm not sure what happened but something definitely did cos my computer started acting weird and then I got an error. It was a User Account Window asking me to allow
some program and click yes or no. I clicked no like 12 times and it just kept coming back. Since it was a common "Windows" window that I'd seen b4 I finally clicked yes just to get rid of it that's when it happened. 5 seconds later I got an error about my
hard drive and that I needed to restart. It would not go away and then I saw the screenshots on this page. This was the virus only I didn't know it at the time.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?name=Trojan%3aWin32%2fFakeSysdef&threatid=2147639286
Anyway, I closed my lid last night with the error window still open and went to sleep. When I "resumed" this morning all my data was gone. This includes programs, files, pics, music everything. I almost cried. I call this my million dollar laptop: Toshiba
A665. Anyway, I immediately restored to 2 days ago and all I got back was my programs but no files. I started searching and found a deleted file. I suspected they were there on HD somewhere. I followed the path to the folder and no file. I remember hiding
files from my ex a while ago so I went to the Start Menu----->My User Account---->Organize---->folder and serach options--->View ----in the list below select Show all hidden files and folders and apply it. All my files suddenly appeared. They were
all hidden by the virus and they still are. Even though i can see them, they are transparent and the properties are changed on each one. I had to right click each one, go inside properties and change the Attribute from Hidden and Apply. That's it
and I am so relieved. My antivirus found the FakeSysdef file and removed it. So far so good. Let me know if this works for you!

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