ITunes' filenames

Recently started using iTunes... been loading up all my music into it. So far so good, but now and then, iTunes seems to get inconsistent with the filenames it uses on disk.
eg: I add a folder containing files like: "tracknumber. trackname.mp3"
The first n tracks it copies over, it will leave the filenames as-is but then the next n, it will properly rename them to be "tracknumber trackname.mp3"
eg2: Add a folder containing files like "artistname - tracknumber - trackname.mp3"
Again the first n tracks copy over as-is but the next n are "corrected" to be "tracknumber trackname.mp3".
I see nothing in the ID3 tags that differ between these tracks...
1) How do I make iTunes add the tracks consistently, renaming all of them.
2) How do I make iTunes go back and fix the ones it didn't rename in the first place?
Thanks,
- Dan.

Yes, I have both the Copy and Organized items checked.
The originals are on an external drive, with paths like artist/tracks or artist/album/tracks. The "tracks" names, and their syntaxes, are whatever came from their original source.
I'm using iTunes' File/Add to Library function. It grabs the tracks off the external, and properly copies them into ~/Music/iTunes/artist/album/tracks, as expected.
It's just seems odd that it properly renames some but not all of the tracks...

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