Help! Need my Album- Artist Organization Back

OK, this is similar to one other post but that solution won't work. Here's what happend:
1) I had a nicely built music library stored under My Music. This was created over years using Windows Media Player and other software. The organization of folders was by general Artist Name then by Album with all songs for each album in that album's folder.
2) This allowed me to easily access music from Windows Media Player and from my Slim Devices Slim Server.
3) I am using ITunes now and was happily using Add Folders because I wanted to just have one music library that all software accessed.
4) The other day I got ahead of myself and in ITunes made the horrible mistake of checking "Let Itunes Keep Folders Organized." This then hosed the entire setup by reorganizing all my folders first by artist then by album. So for any one artist it might have five or six albums under that folder.
5) Now in my non-Itunes software the libraries are a complete mess.
HELP! I've tried to go back to Windows Media Player and get it to reorganize back to the ALBUM then ARTIST scheme. That seems to have worked for most of the straighforward albums but not for compilations and a bunch of random songs.
I do not have a backup of my original scheme, or at least one that's recent enough to be worth using.
I need things back in ALBUM->MUSIC order to that I can access my music correctly from non-itunes software/devices.
I know Apple is god and can do no wrong but I can't understand why there is not an option that one can set how one wants one's music hierchy to be. I can only surmise that this is an attempt to mess up how other software works with the library. It would be an incredibly useful addition to the software. As it stands now I feel like I'm back in the late 80's with software manufacturers using cheap tricks to mess up each other's products. Also, checking Let Itunes Organize Folders should generate a huge warning of what's about to happen and the text with that option should be clarified because it now implies that organization will be album->artist not artist->album.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

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