Audiobooks won't stay in audiobook folder.

I've got a couple of audiobooks I've imported to my iTunes that I'm trying to organize. I want all my audiobooks in an "Audiobook" folder in the iTunes Music library but every time I drag and drop them to the folder, when I open the audio files the location automatically defaults to my song library.
So if I put Dan Brown in my "Audiobooks" file and open it, when iTunes loads and I go back to my finder window to see the file, iTunes has automatically created a "Dan Brown" folder in my music library instead. How do I stop this? I've already made sure the files are classified as audiobooks so I'm not sure what's wrong....

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