Itunes keeps creating a second album file

Using iTunes on my desktop to listen to my albums but this happens with nearly every album I play. iTunes creates a second file with the album artwork and moves the track I have just listened to into the new file, but leaves either the first or last track, meaning for each album I end up with two files. So I either have to delete the whole and upload it again (the same prob eventually happens again anyway) or just put up with having to jump between files if I listen to an album! Anyone have any ideas what on earth is happening, it is getting quite annoying now! Also I cant update iTunes as it crashes my desktop every single time (brand new, very powerful desktop).

Caution is a wise move. Here is the standard layout of the itunes folders.
In this layout you can happily move the whole iTunes folder to a new path or drive and use the SHIFT-launch iTunes method to open the library in the new location. iTunes will use relative links from the location of the library to access each file. The steps I gave above should allow you to rebuild this standard layout on your G: drive in a way that keeps iTunes happy - ie. when you are finished it should work, whereas if you just move everything around and fire up iTunes without the intermediate steps it is likely to be completely broken.
Note that *Step 1* is to copy the contents of the C:...iTunes folder to the root of drive G: This will place the *libray files* (the stuff outside the red box) in the correct relative location to your *media content* (the stuff inside the red box). The subsequent stages should get you to the point where the library is called iTunes instead of G:\ and your media is at *G:\iTunes\iTunes Media*. When you are happy the everything works via drive G: (and hopefully after taking a backup) you can delete the old iTunes folder in drive C:.
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