ITunes Library Doing What IT Wants to!

I am fighting the library, literally! I have songs in albums under an artist's folder, yet suddenly a lot of the songs showed up with the little ! before them, saying iTunes couldn't find them. Well, they are right here, so I manually deleted the ones with the !, and clicked to play the ones in the folder, as they played, the !'s went away, however, the songs kept ending up in the correct album folder, but in a NEW artist folder, although there is a "-" following his name. There is not one in the title or in any of the "get info" windows, however it DOES show it in the "Where" line, (which I can't access to change, obviously), and will show it as in the folder with the extra character after it!
Plus, and what really is tripping me out, is that when I trash the extra folders, if there are any mp3s in them, they will still play from iTunes, even though being in the trash! And I know that's not supposed to happen, so it's really screwy, and no matter what I do, I can't get them to stay where I put them! What is up with all this?

Thanks very much - the problem was that some of the albums weren't ticked. I don't remember unticking or ticking them when I downloaded my music - I think iTunes must have done it randomly. But the problem's solved now - thanks!

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