ITunes lost all the names of my audio files

I can appreciate that there are some people who need to have organisation forced upon them because they are incapable or too lazy to do it for themselves. I personally hate apps which take control of my computer or file system and put things where I can't find them.
I have always had my iTunes prefs set to manually manage my audio files. I record messages from our Church services to put on the internet for people to listen to who are unfortunate enough not to be able to attend the service, for whatever reason. Each recording has a different speaker and message heading, which I manually type onto each file after I have converted it from AIFF to MP3. The files are all called 01 Track 01 in their default state from our CD recording equipment.
I had over 1 year's worth of speakers in a folder with, on ocassions, 2 - 3 speakers per week. On one particular day last week, I was doing something on my computer (can't remember what now) but a message appeared which said something along the lines of - 'can't complete your request because your iTunes library is not organised, do you wish to do that now?' and without thinking I pressed the ok button and the task completed.
It was not until the next Sunday when I went into the folder to retrieve the file called 01 Track 01 from amongst all the other named files, that I found over 100 files all with the titles 01 Track 01 1, 01 Track 01 2...3, etc etc. - so much for Apple's brilliant organisation, now I will have to go into each one individually and try to recognise each speaker's voice and wait until he announces his reading before I can name the files to something I will recognise in the future.
iTunes asked if I wanted to 'organise' my files - not rename them, I am so angry about this and I'm guessing there isn't an easy way to fix this - OK, I use Time Machine to backup my discs - but there is 100's of MBs of data to transfer over when it is only the names I need - I KNOW, somebody is going to tell me that it would surely still be quicker to do this than retype all the names - I WILL do this if there is no other option, but I'm hoping that Apple or somebody will be anble to suggest a quick way for me to get all the names back onto the right files.
Any suggestions anybody?
Thanks

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