Can I turn off playlists in iTunes?

Ever since iTunes 8 came out I have noticed that it's impossible to import folders into the library and only get the mp3s in a folder, I always get the playlist as well which is very annoying considering that I get duplicates of every song I import.
Is there any way to turn off this playlist function so I can go back to basics and just throw in folders without having to worry that the playlist will come along as well?
and deleting the playlists is not an option!
Hope to get some help with this, thanks.

I am assuming that you have M3U files in your music folders that are being loading into iTunes along with the mp3's. First of all the songs listed in any playlist are not duplicates. As with the library itself, the list you see is really just a series of "shortcuts" to the actual files on your system. The playlists are just copies of the shortcuts. If you rename a file/folder/drive iTunes puts the little ! symbol beside the track because the shortcut is not pointing/linking to where it should.
You can just delete the playlists, this will not delete anything from your system. Not sure if you can stop the playlists installing, if you cannot delete the M3U files why not temporarily re-name them (extention). There are a lot of free software that will rename a whole bunch of files at one time. When you are done loading just rename them back again.

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