Importing Music Library

I have a music library that I have saved on a seperate partition on my hard drive.
I used windows media player to rip all the music to MP3 format. I recently purchased a 2g Nano and installed iTunes.
I dragged & dropped the music library into iTunes, which worked great - that is - until I realized it made a 2nd copy of my music library under the iTunes folder in "My Music".
This wouldn't be an issue if it wasn't 42g worth of space. How can I get iTunes to use my original music collection. And is there a way I can import the whole collection? It's literally 10,000 songs.
Thanks,
LD
The orignial music collection is arranged:
ARTIST FOLDER
ALBUM(s) SUBFOLDER
Dell   Windows XP  

I am completely re-adding my entire library for other various reasons, but when running iTunes @ the bottom it says I'm 800 files short of what my actual iTunes folder displays.
I do have a lot of non playable playlist files, could this be the difference in files?
See the thing is I'm starting to think some of my MP3's aren't updating.
Thanks In Advance, that is if someone answers my question-lol

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