Itunes duplicates every single song

A week ago I reinstalled the operating system on my computer, took the music from my ipod and placed it on my desktop. Then I downloaded iTunes and it automatically imported every piece of music on the computer. OK, I thought, but then it turned out Itunes had duplicated every single song, so now there's not 2000 songs, but 4000 on it! ***! desperately need some guidance. Thanks in advance!

Maybe you need to turn this setting off:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61658
It prob copied everything from your desktop to the iTUnes music folder shown in itunes prefrences.

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