Sort by Path and Filename - What does a guy have to do?

Hello all,
First post here and such, but as the title reads. I have been using iTunes since early versions of 7 when I aquired my used 2gen Mini.
In a past incident where people were attaching viruses to the ID3 Tags (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:ID3#Virusesin_ID3tags) I took the liberty (stupidity) of stripping all my ID3 tags from my music directory due to that security fault at the time, but also because all of them (the tags) were horridly inputted to the files.
As iTunes users we can see the bad mistake I made, so now when I add a folder/directory to iTunes they just get sent to the bottom of the iTunes 'music list'.
'Sort by path and Filename' would do wonders in organization of these untagged files. When adding an entire genre or folder, all **** breaks loose and there are the typical 40 tracks of '01 - songname' '02 - songname' and so on.
This is where the rant part comes in. Here we are on Version 7.4.3.1 and Apple still hasnt added this minute feature to iTunes.
I have to use Yahoo! Musicmatch (yuck) to sort and rename my files, only then to re-import them back into iTunes. I dont really care for that software (yahoo) for anything except sorting. Because it adds the actual folder to the viewable list and allows for batch renaming of directories and ID3 Tag renaming of entire albums/directories. I am not so concerned over the actual filename itself, but at least sorting by Path in iTunes would be nice so that I could give the files their proper ID3 Tags.
Cmon Cupertino, this one isnt that hard.
Thank you for your time.
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You have several options -- two of which I'll outline below (neither built-in to iTunes, sorry)
1) Use an external program to write ID3 tags based on the path/filename. One such program is "MP3Tag" (http://mp3tag.de/en)
2) I wrote a program that with put the path in the Description field. You select the playlist -- then for every track in the playlist it changes the Description to the path. NOTE: I do NOT recommend that you select the "Library" playlist because it will overwrite existing descriptions for TV Shows, podcasts, etc. You can limit it to music by selecting the "Music" playlist.
EXE version:
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/itunespathdescription.zip
source code:
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/itunespathdescription.pl
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