Importing music and video through command line

I can't seem to get the following to work at the DOS prompt (W2000)-
C:\"Program Files"\iTunes\iTunes.exe "C:\TEMP_MEDIA"
I am running iTunes 7.0.2.16. iTunes launches with the above, but the files are not imported into iTunes from the directory. There is no error message of any sort. The file just doesn't get transfered. (I have no problem when I use the Import menu option in the iTunes gui.) Is there some setting that is disabling this? I tried it both with and without setting the "Play on import" option-- same result, nada.
If there is some other way to automate importing the contents of a folder or even specific files explicitly named I would be grateful to hear about it. Here is the context of mny question. I want to distribute files using an Installer that copies them to a specific folder and then uses an "EXEC" command to invoke iTunes to do an import. I cannot assume anything about the end user's environment other than it's Windows 2000 or later, with iTunes 7 or later. The end user cannot be asked to enable ActiveX controls of any sort, install special plugins, or the like. That's why this option I am trying seems like what I need... but it just doesn't want to work for some reason!
All help most appreciated!
Alan
Windows 2000 iTunes 7.0.2

All,
This was solved. I had forgotten to put the file in the ip/install folder.
Regards,
Suhas.

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