ITunes makes a new playlist every time music is added.

Hi. I am running lion. Latest version of itunes. On a mcbook pro.
Everytime i add music,w heather i drag and drop or import it makes a playlist on the side for each and every artist.
I have a gigantic library and i don't wan to have to go to at the end and delete like 200+ tabs.. I am really frustrated. Because i also have some misc files
i would like to add into one playlist. I don't want to mix the misc files with my actual library, and i was hoping to make one playlist for those misc. files and
another for my other things.. I was hoping someone could help me. That would be super great. I have already looked through preferences and i could not find anything. I am pretty tech savy, but am confused on this right now. It could just be a glith or something. THANKS

Your folders are probably littered with mu3 files. Previously iTunes would ignore such files when importing a folder, though they could be imported on demand. Now they are being imported too. A previous build failed to add the files so they all imported as empty lists, though if you have the current build they should be populated. Rather than importing the whole folder use something like Music Folder Files Not Added from Doug's Scripts.
OR...
I've just missed the fact that you are describing the column browser which can list Artists, Albums, Genres etc. This is a useful feature for browsing the content of your library, but you don't have to have it displayed if you don't want it. View > Column Browser > Hide Column Browser... (at least on a PC)
If you add media to your library then it is added to one of the content groups, Music, Movies, TV Shows etc. You can't have it only appear in a user playlist.
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