2 iPods need iTunes BUT

iTunes was working great holding 40 GB of teaching/music. But :(

while I loaned my desktop, Windows 7 ultimate, to my friend while

I was away, an automatic iTunes update or two or three occurred

(I was gone for 6 months). Also while on loan my PC crashed and I

was left with this problem. I have a backup, but with it iTunes

can't find the actual music that goes with the playlists listed

on the left pane. Here's the details:

I have a separate backups of several dates of the .itl and the

.xml files, but no matter what version of iTunes I download,

these data files show me only the playlists but don't tell iTunes

where to find the music that matches them. My iTunes Music folder

is 40 GB large. So, they are in there somewhere because I always

copy the source file when I add them into iTunes.
Playlists are all there on the left but the music on the right is

not placed under the right playlists. I think the iTunes version

was 10.7 or 11.3 that last worked but now downloading those and

using those saved .itl and .xml files won't fix this problem.

I've tried every combo I can think of but no success. I'm missing

40 GB of great teaching and music!

I've searched to find someone who knows how to look into the XMl

file to see what ver. of iTunes it matches with but so far no

results. This is so frustrating.

I'm sure someone a lot smarter than me knows how to fix this---

Pls help.

I've also tried several times to join the Apple iTunes forum but

cannot get registered as a user. Sign up page keeps asking for

info I've already typed in, so I can't post there.

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