Itunes 7.02 messed up my Itunes Music folder

Hello all, I love iTunes 7.02 and I'm overjoyed that I haven't had stability issues (fingers crossed). HOWEVER - I noticed that iTunes 7 really took an axe to my iTunes 4 Music folder. I was very cautious about upgrading - so before I upgraded, I uninstalled iTunes 4 completely to try and avoid upgrade issues. However, my iTunes music folder is now a complete mess - CDs have become compilations, some folders are now empty, and music is just not where it's supposed to be! What's especially bad is that if some CD's have songs with multiple artists...instead of grouping those songs with the album, it has created separate folders for new artists! This has had the obvious effect of really taking a dent out of my poor harddrive and I was wondering if there is anyway I could fix it??? Otherwise - I'm guessing that I"m going to have to just delete my music and start over??? Much thanks!

Essentially, the problem is that if you uninstall an old version of iTunes and then install the new iTunes 7, it will completely re-arrange (aka totally mess up) your library and how it is stored on your computer and use up tons of your hard disk. Consider this and maybe choose simply upgrading instead!

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