Add new folder to library question

My wife and I have a VERY LARGE library of music and while still trying to get iTunes situated for our particular use we frequently have files that are manually copied into the music file folder that of course iTunes then has no idea is there unless we add the entire music folder to the library AGAIN which takes forever. Also, I'm concerned that it's adding duplicates when it does this.
If we were just adding a single folder or something at a time I wouldn't be concerned, I could just add that one folder, but the way these files are added it's basically a script that runs that compares another drive to the music folders drive of iTunes, whatever is not there it copies over so it's different files, different folders etc so I can't really just select one folder to add, it's adding the entire folder in iTunes again.
Is there an easier way to do this? Will doing this create duplicates?
Thanks!

After posting that and re-reading I decided to re-write it but my system wouldn't let me save the edit; here's the edit...
My wife and I have a very large collection of music that we have been trying to incorporate into a single library for our laptops to use. I think I have it mostly figured out for sharing a library (found an article about using synctoy in Windows to essentially mirror the libraries from a shared network drive while using the same physical copy of music files on a network drive. This seems to be working so far, but...
In the process I have been moving from having a mirrored copy of music on each laptop (via an external USB drive on each laptop) to consolidating that into one music folder on the networked drive. I've got it just about complete but I ran an xcopy script again to ensure all music files from those drives really made it in entirety to the networked drive AFTER adding folder to library in iTunes. Now of course iTunes doesn't know those new files are there and they are all over the place, not in just one directory.
Now the question, if I select add folder to library in iTunes again selecting the entire music folder so it will pick up those new files, will it create duplicate entries in iTunes? Or should this work ok?
Is there an easier way to do this?

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....1.Number of server nodes depends upon the CPU speed.J2EE Engine
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=====================
To which I replied:
=====================
.....2. I thought when you did the initial 'Add Server' it was supposed to
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Shouldn't they all be the same?"
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3. Is there a way to do a comparison between the server nodes to see
what settings are missing?.....
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SAP's reply:
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.....-When a new server process is added, ONLY standard SAP delivered files
& folders are synchronized. True or False? TRUE
-No custom files/folders are synnchronized. True or False? TRUE
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YES.
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======================
My Reply:
======================
.....1.How do we know what settings were transferred vs. those that weren't
transferred?
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3. Is there a way to do a comparison between the server nodes to see
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======================
SAP's Reply:
======================
.....1.How do we know what settings were transferred vs. those that weren't
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NO there is no way.
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You need to deploy the appliactions again on the new server.
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No there is no way......
======================
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