Import music from hardrive and itunes changes it?

ok so after i imported all my mp3s off of my hardrive into itunes, the file names all got changed and now they are not in any order at all? any ideas?
  Windows XP  

Hello again! I think I answered your question in that other post.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2297036#2297036

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