Backing up ipod! Too many folders.. easy way to import?

I am backing up over 8500 songs on my iPod.. I am saving them on an external hard drive AND on DVD+R dics just to be sure.
I went into the iPod settings under "My Computer" and made the folder unhidden to get the songs... I do NOT want to use any type of program. This worked fine.
I moved the songs to one folder(all of the songs with names like AEOF, etc...)
PROBLEM: I put the settings in iTunes to "Keep iTunes Media Folder organized" and "copy Files to iTunes media" so I could SAVE the songs with their title.
When I imported 875 songs into iTunes just to TEST it, it gave me 426 items in iTunes, all folders of the songs.. (yes, I have a lot of single songs!)
*If something happens to my iPod, and I want to put these songs on a new ipod, do i need to +CLICK on every folder+ to import the song in it BACK on iTunes.*
This isn't even half my collection and I already have 426 folders. I want to know now if there is an easy way to import songs without clicking on every folder.
Thank you!
Help!

To backup all the folders inside iTunes Music just copy iTunes Music to another location. Everything inside gets copied. To reimport everything you backed up, either import the backup copy of the iTunes Music folder with the iTunes option *Copy to iTunes Music folder when adding to library*, or copy the backup folder in as a sub-folder of the main iTunes Music folder (so you would have ...\iTunes Music\iTunes Music\<Lots of folders>) and then use *Add folder to library* to add in ...\iTunes Music\iTunes Music - iTunes will process all subfolders automatically and reorganise if you have *Keep iTunes Music folder organised* turned on.
If space is at a premium then I'd really recommend that you purchase a small external hard drive and build your complete library onto it - they are really quite cheap these days. As you have discovered, reconstucting a library from an iPod's contents is not a trivial task and, given the chances that at some point you could have your iPod lost, stolen, or the data inaccessible, having the iPod as the principle source of the library is a bad move. Even having backups of the media without having these arranged in an iTunes library makes restoring your iPod a much more complex task than it should be.
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