ITunes wont put songs into correct folder!!

When I import songs into iTunes, it stores the songs under the wrong folder in "My Music". There is two folders that somehow got mixed up, "iTunes Library" (which is where I would like the songs to go into) and "iTunes Music" (which i dont want to even exist!). Can someone please help me fix this, it is really annoying to do all this manually.
Thanks in advance for all of your help!

Can you post a screenshot of your iTunes > Edit > Preferences > Advanced tab?
Because what you typed sounds normal. The library is a file named iTunes Library.itl and it just holds pointers/references to the actual files in the folder
C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music
Check this out
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748

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