ITunes Music folder with my iTunes folder

I'm trying to organize my music and I have a problem: If I open my main music folder and then open my iTunes folder, I see many folders of all my assorted artists. Among those is another folder called "iTunes Music" that seems to duplicate all the same artists. What's the safest way to delete these so that I don't have all the duplicates? Also, how did that get there? I seem to recall deleting these in the past, but somehow they have reappeared. Thanks....

Read my post, as I figured my issue out and it might fix yours too:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5606206#5606206

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