Itunes screw up my music library

Attention!
I use itunes 7.0.1.8 and used the function "add folder to library". In my case the folder is a network based harddisk.
itunes added all of my songs, also the mp3 files which were already on the disc, but SCRAMBLED the whole disc. For example there were several directories, where I stored mp3 to be used on a "regular MP3 player". As space is no problem today, these "stick-directories" contain double mp3 files. Now itunes has moved them to a new folder "unknown artist/unknown album" and renamed them to strange filenames. Funny is, that when itunes found a mp3-tag, it used parts of the tag to name that song.
So be aware, if you do not use only itunes as music/player/manager.
Maybe Apple could teach itunes not to move anything, but store the physical path to find the songs.

see thread from last night
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=792196&tstart=30

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