During Convert, it created new names, new folders!

I just converted a large number of files and iTunes reorganzed them all.
In my prefs I had nothing checked off. Advanced.General: unchecked keep folder organized, etc. Importing: unchecked create file names, etc. But it seems to have done these things anyway.
After letting it run all night, when I got up this morning to see progress I found it had stalled on one file and then when I clicked cancel, it just ended, and I don’t know if it completed converting all my files. (I want to trash the older ones).
What it did: The reason I can’t tell what exactly it did is that it changed the titles and reorganized the folders, creating new folders where I had none. I know it “did the right thing” as far as correctly identifying what it could and correctly finding out what album a song came from - but that’s not how I had them organized.
Exactly what it did: Case in point: I had a folder named “African Rhythm.” In it I had a song file named “03 Amaliza.” iTunes created a new folder named “TWA” (which is the name of the actual band but I had it in a compilation folder) and in it created another new folder named “African Rhythms,” and in that retitled my song file as “Amaliza.” (Correct name but it dropped the “03” before it.)
How can I get iT to leave my file and folder names as they were before converting?
Thanks for any help with this.
nÔÔdle--hëad
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