ITunes won't add my music folder!

I've been trying for weeks to figure this out, my music folder is pretty big, almost at 60GB, and it used to be when I tried to add it to my iTunes library it crashed, well, I've been trying recently to do this, and it isn't crashing...but it won't add the whole folder. It adds maybe 1,000 of the songs and then it stops and won't add anymore.
Is there any way to fix this without having to go through and add 600+ folders manually?
  Windows XP Pro  

Hi Chris,
I appreciate all the info, but for some reason several of the artists didn't get backed up like they should have in the itunes music folder, so I have to add them back from my ipod. However, when I've tried to do that, it says I have 2 copies of each song and then when I delete the one I added off my ipod, it says it can't find the song.
But my ipod names the songs weird so I don't know which song is which! if that makes sense...
And b/c I deleted and then added back my itunes library several times when I was trying to get it sorted out, I have 3 copies of every playlist, even the automatic ones.
I'm so frustrated right now about all of this, and I can't sync up my ipod like I want to until I get all this figured out!

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