Yikes! Podcast library cleared - by itself!

OK, maybe it's me but I went to the Podcasts link under Library in the viewing pane in iTunes 5.01 today. All the podcasts which had been listed there were gone with one exception - a cast that I added today. What did I do and how did I do it? Sorry to be clueless about this. Looking in the iTunes music folder, I have discovered that the casts which have been saved are all there.
Any suggestions?

Just something that went wrong during the upgrade process from 4->5 I presume. Perhaps some corruption in the 4.x database that prevented the upgrade process from properly extracting the data.

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