ITunes organization is KILLING ME!

I really hate the way iTunes organized music into folders. I just discovered that I find it incredibly annoying when I'm trying to find my music files. I'd like it to just keep all of my music files in a single folder. Even when I uncheck the "Keep iTunes music folder organized" box, it still puts new songs into those disgusting folders. How do I get it to stop?
Thanks in advance.

Matt, I think I lost the songs because I wasn't careful to de-select them before trashing another song in the Library.
When making up a playlist for a CD or my iPod, I might organize a list in the Library by Date Added, check the most recent songs and add them to a playlist. Then I might have resorted the library list by Name (of song), and the most recent additions would disappear from the top of the library list.
Then, upon checking and highlighting a song for deletion, I would choose the "move to trash" option, forgetting that iTunes evidently applies that instruction to every song that has been checked.
As I mentioned before (in one of the two threads we've got going here), I didn't see anything actually appear in the desktop trash bin. If so, I might have inspected the contents before emptying the trash.
Incidentally, I'm still using 10.3.9 and don't have the Spotlight feature.
I really appreciate your help in all this.
-- David H
466 upgraded to 1.2Gz PowerMacG4 & 800MHz iBookG4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

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