Man this was a nasty glitch. I haven't been so upset about a computer malfunction in quite a while. I guess I am getting a bit too invested in the work I do sorting out new songs.

here's what happened.

I have been downloading from limewire (4.8.1) and listening in my itunes (4.7.1) recently added smart playlist.

I have been having problems in the past with downloads becoming actual items within the library, but I thought I got that all fixed, and when I downloaded songs, I had them become library items, not just proxies.

Tonite, I was downloading for four hours and all of a sudden, both my Recently Added playlist and all of todays songs were blasted from itunes.

I grabbed 250 songs from my shared folder and re-imported them, but lost all of my tags and their place in playlists.

This sucks. What can I do to keep this from happening. And, before I do all the mundane work of re-tagging these tunes... can I get the info back?

Thanks!!

Tor