ITunes 11.0.5 not showing music folder files

Where to begin? Over the years, my music folder (approx 200gb) became a mess; approx 1/3 "missing" from iTunes, dozens of artists files somehow stashed in other artist files (all my Stones, for instance, was in the Ella Fitzgerald folder... why, who knows) , and not having access to everything I knew to be there. So, after upgrading to 11.0.5, I made a backup of my messed up Music folder, copied that to a scratch drive and began going through, artist by artist, and eliminating dupes, correcting spelling, and so on. Took 18 hours. When satisfied, opened iTunes, created a new library, clicked Add To Library, pointed it to the corrected folder, and let it do it's thing. In Prefs, I had selected "Keep Media folder organized" and "Copy files to media folder when adding".
This morning, when checking on things, noticed that the Music folder did indeed have all the files in there, yet none of them showed in iTunes. Quit and restarted iTunes, and only things from the cloud where present, less than 10% of my music overall. During import, iTunes showed that it was downloading album art, equalizing volume, etc. for these files.
Decided to start over again, trashed that library, made a new one, pointed to the right place, same results. The files are indeed in the proper place, iTunes is showing the correct location for these files, yet they're still not showing up.
I do still have the untouched backup. One of the many things I trashed in the process were dozens of "previous iTunes libraries", which are still in the backup. Also, after backing up, trashed everything in my media folder on my MBP to insure that nothing old was left behind. Might that be causing this issue? Figured it I treated it as a first time, brand new thing, that all would be good.
Obviously not.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance for any help, and have a great day.
Roger

the device list is now in 11.x a dropdrown button in the left part of the itunes panel to the right of the itunes store button
works fine with my appletv 1g

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