How to keep pre-existing MP3 collection organized in iTunes?

Hi
I'm a new iPod user, but have been building my MP3 collection for 9 years or so now. My MP3 collection is organized by genre/artist/album/song on my computers file system. However after importing my files into iTunes so much of it is a mess. The directory structure is lost. There are many files that were duplicated, some songs aren't recognized by iTunes at all. And some songs are not kept within the album that they were a part of in my original collection.
Is there some reasonable way to reorganize iTunes? Of course since I've got my new iPod I've been downloading new songs so I can't really trash the directory where everything is messed up and start over again for fear of loosing my new songs that aren't in my original MP3 collection.
What is the best way to make things reasonable again? I sure would like to just keep things organized with the directory structure like I used to before.
Thanks, Derek

Is there some reasonable way to reorganize iTunes?
Best way is to make sure all your ID3 tags are correct. iTunes uses the ID3 tags (Artist/Album/song name) to put them into these folders.
What is the best way to make things reasonable again?
Use iTunes, not a Finder window or directory structure, to organize everything.
iTunes will put the songs into Artist/Album folders.
If you use iTunes, no need to really worry about what iTunes names them or the folders they are in.

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