Importing songs already on PC.

I decided to give Vista a try on my desktop just to see what it's like. When I launched iTunes it started to import all my songs, I noticed it was importing each song double. I decided to empty the music library and import them all some other way.
My question is; is there any way for iTunes to scan my computer for the songs since I can't import my 2 thousand songs one by one (I also can't select all my songs and import them since that would result in having my songs opened in WMP)?
Thanks in advance,
tmockingbird

Solved it myself.

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