ITunes keeps creating a new folder called "Music".

Hello. This is really bothering me.
I have my music stored on a server in a folder called "Music". All of the meta data etc is perfect as i went through every track and edited them as needs be. After doing a fresh install on my Mac, i draged n dropped the contents of the "Music" folder into iTunes where it all imports with absolutly no problems (i had iTunes set to NOT edit track names etc with the location i'm dragging from set to my iTunes media directory). Once everything was back in iTunes, i rechecked the box that allows iTunes to organise and edit files again. As soon as a check that box iTunes decides to randomly move some artists into a new "Music" folder located inside the "Music" folder that i created (/Volumes/Media/Music/Music/).
Why is this happening? I see no reason why iTunes should move only some artists into a seperate folder with the same name as the parent folder i created.
Cany anyone help? My OCD is going mental haha.
Thanks,
Chris.

Hello.
If i set the location to /Volumes/Media/ it does not creat the "Music" folder and it put's all of the artist folders under /Volumes/Media/.
Are there any settings i can refresh or something?
I've tried deleteing my library and re-importing countless times now. I noticed that tracks/artists/albums are moved to the second "Music" folder once i play them in iTunes. I want iTunes to rename the files and stuff, this is how i got all of the metadata right in the first place, but why is it creating another "Music" folder? And why doesn't it do it if i set the location to /Volumes/Media/? I've never had this problem before with the exact same set up and media.
Can someone please explain how to start from scratch incase i did something wrong along the way which is causeing this issue?
Cheers,
Chris.

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