iTunes wiped out my music! Help!

[iPhondle]

Just yesterday I'm opening up iTunes and to my disbelief all my music was not there (40+ gigs worth). I try and close down and open iTunes back up but nothing, I restart my xp computer and still nothing. So I look under file explorer and it seems like all my music is still located under the "iTunes music" folder. So I uninstalled all the apple products on my computer and reinstalled iTunes 9 et. Al. And still no results. Does anyone know how to get my library to show up in iTunes?
Thanks

 

[Bobioden]

You will probably have to import it back into iTunes. At least it is still on your computer.

 

[iPhondle]

So will I have to import all the songs file by file? Or is there another way to import my library?

 

[Kathy223]

something similar happened to me once, i forgot to uncheck the box in itunes where it says automatically sync my ipod to computers i tune, and totally replaced my list with the ones on the computer, when all i just wanted to was update / add some songs to my ipod.
i had to rebuild everything one by one. totally stupid!