ITunes has reorganized my music directorty

iTunes has reorganized my music directory.
I had everything carefully organized by genre, artist, etc
Is it possible to return this directory back to the way I had it organized?

Thank-you but...
The actual directory on my hard drive was manually organized. After installing iTunes where I would have had a directory called for example; e:/music/blues/Albert King/album name etc... Its reorganized into songs and folders all over the e drive bearing no resemblance to the file structure I had set-up. Instead of opening the drive to find about 20 genre directories I now have about, oh, several thousand small directories.
Luckily I have a complete back-up on another drive. I'd like to fix this one and put it back the way it was. I prefer winamp and its easier the way I had it.

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