Importing various folders of music into iTunes

Hi all. Let me start by saying that I don't own a Windows PC. A friend of mine at work wants to import music into iTunes from folders containing MP3 files, which are already on his computer. The folders (4 of them) contain music from each of his kids. He wants to maintain the music in the respective folders in iTunes (either via smart folders or by some other means), as to not mix and match the music, or have to sit there all day and drag and drop from within iTunes (apparently he has close to 10,000 songs to deal with).
Is there any way to import these various folders into iTunes (Windows) while maintaining their respective locations/ownership? On my Mac, it's pretty simple- I could either drag and drop from the finder into iTunes, or create Spotlight Comments for each collection of songs in each folder, then create smart folders from within iTunes, and load the songs to their respective folders based on the Spotlight Comments. Any suggestions?
He's using the latest iTunes iteration, and Windows XP.
John

To Import folders into itunes you can go to:
Itunes-->File-->Add Folder to Library. Before you
do this you have to decide if you want one library over
multiple accounts or seperate libraries for each account.

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