ITunes not deleting renamed files?

Have other experiences this in iTunes...
I'm pretty manic about tagging my files, so whenever I get files from friends and whatnot that aren't tagged properly, I agonize and do so in excrutiating detail. All that's fine.
But now that I go into several actual folders, iTunes hasn't gotten rid of all the older named files. All the newly retagged files are in their properly named folders, but some of the old ones are still in folders with old album names. There's also an abundance of files like "song title" followed by "song title 1". What's with all these duplicates? Anyone else seeing this annoying breakdown in iTunes command of the file system?
Thanks in advance!

Similar things happen to me all the time. I have not encountered your exact problem, but a host of things like it. Maybe someone can explain exactly how iTunes "sees" audio files. For example how does it determine the order of songs in an album? I notice the file names start with 01, 02, 03, etc which do not show up in the itunes screen. But when I try to inject these numbers in the original filename to change the order of songs it does not work.
The one thing I do know is that when you remove a song from iTunes the original file is still there - it just is not recognized in your song list. You have to delete it with a separate action.

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