ITunes 11 merges my libraries and imports "cloud" music that I never downloaded or searched for?

I have over 600 albums. I created and manage four separate libraries to help me sort my music in top-level ways that iTunes just doesn't allow (example, one library is just for streams that I have ripped, and omg, live recordings. Who does that anymore?) Now that I'm in iTunes 11, the user interface is mixing them all together in the same display! This totally defeats my preference of browsing libraries by my custom sorting. No use with the "genre" tags- iTunes never tagged half this stuff correctly to begin with, so this sort option is useless 50% of the time anyway. What am I supposed to do, go through 600 albums and retag each one individually? FRUSTRATING!
Furthermore, there are new files that seem to have come off "the cloud" that I NEVER DOWNLOADED and these files/songs are littered everywhere across my libraries like little mouse droppings.
How much time do I have to waste on my part to reverse-engineer this? I'm looking through all these discussions, and the "solutions" people have for these iTunes "workarounds" are getting worse than similar "workarounds" for Windows problems!!
Should I revert to iTunes 10?
Should I just dump iTunes entirely? (Believe me I've been thinking about it. All my music is stored separately in original format files. I have never trusted iTunes to manage my music, I only use it for the interface.)
Advice? Please?

For anyone who hits this thread: Hit view, then "hide music in the cloud." Your libraries will return to how you have built them.
Kelly, your music is still probably on your hard drive. The iCloud is just a cute techy way of saying that you have online access to things you've purchased from apple... just wait until they make it so that you ONLY have online access to your purchases, and nothing ever comes "off" the cloud for you to tangibly own.
Folks, this is a smoke and mirrors gimmick to make you buy-in to the itunes store. Let Apple manage, deliver, and DECIDE all the content that you will see. It's at least one degree more insiduous than corporate radio.
Kudos on the crisp interface and larger album cover displays, but...
Apple cannot find cover art for 1/3 of the library that I have built. That is because Apple does not carry that music. Apple will never host music from ancient vinyl that I have remastered, Apple will never host the shows of obscure electronica djs or the local bluegrass bands that put out EPs in the western US in the 80s. If you restrict your music experience to a single venue, you are not only missing out, but you are supporting an economic model which quashes music that does "not meet industry standards." Have fun with iTunes 11 kids.

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