Any way to reverse how iTunes re-organized all my music files on my comp?!?

When I changed my "iTunes music folder" location to the big folder on my computer that has all my music files (over 900), I accidentally checked the box that said "keep iTunes music folder organized"!
Now, iTunes has re-organized my big music folder into a million folders organized by artist. Not only that, but the stupid thing changed the names of all my music files, too!!!
is there any way i can reverse all this?!?!
I cant believe checking that little box changed so much!!! DAMMM YOU iTUNES!!!!
please help!!

Why not? It did exactly what you told it to do.
yes thats true... it's just that I didnt think it would "re-organize" the files in such an extreme way (i.e. separating them into a tonne of different folders and subfolders and changing the file names).
Thanks for the heads-up, guys! I will check out TagScanner...

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