Keep music organised doesn't keep music very organised

It seems to me that the keep music folder organised option doesn't keep things very organised.
When a song is first imported into iTunes, it puts it in the right place. But if I change info regarding the song which should affect the location (Atrist, Album, Song Name), it does not move the file.
And then if I select Consolidate Library it copies everything to the right place, leaving a bunch of orphaned files.
Is there a way to get iTunes to keep the files in the right place and up to date without ending up with a bunch of duplicate files in the wrong places?

Okay, mine now works here is what I did.
plug in the iPhone, iPad etc
in iTunes select the phone or iPad
Under Summary uncheck "Sync with this....."
Under "Music" uncheck the "Sync Music"
Let it remove all the songs, dont worry it will come back no problems.
Once that is all done all the music on the phone or ipad should be gone.
Now check them both back on and everything should copy back onto it.
Working now !!!!!

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hiya!
here's one way of checking what might be going on:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=2163608
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If i set the location to /Volumes/Media/ it does not creat the "Music" folder and it put's all of the artist folders under /Volumes/Media/.
Are there any settings i can refresh or something?
I've tried deleteing my library and re-importing countless times now. I noticed that tracks/artists/albums are moved to the second "Music" folder once i play them in iTunes. I want iTunes to rename the files and stuff, this is how i got all of the metadata right in the first place, but why is it creating another "Music" folder? And why doesn't it do it if i set the location to /Volumes/Media/? I've never had this problem before with the exact same set up and media.
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I was hoping that I could have put them into the "audio books" catagory, but it seems I can't do that.
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