Manually Adding and Deleting Files in iTunes

Hello Folks
Got a few simple questions:
I'd like to manually add sound files to my iTunes Library
(preferences - yes but where exactly)
I'd like to also 'DELETE' some sound files that were stored in the Library
(preferences - yes but where exactly)
And do you guys have any other sound file player that will open tunes and sound files automatically INSTEAD of iTunes?
Perhaps WinnAmp Free Player?
Or is there another one that you recommend?
Thank you
Mike

OK, maybe I am duplicating your problem. When I do a Spotlight search on the song's filename without the extension, I get a list of files. The track I added to iTunes is still in the appropriate folder and it looks like iTunes copied the file I wanted deleted to the trash instead of moving it. Additionally, the first file was named "bell.wav". I copied it to the desktop, changed a tag in the original file, and then imported the copy. iTunes named the copy "bell.wav.wav". I then deleted the song from iTunes, or thought I did, and what showed up in the trash was a file named "Bell.wav.wav.wav". I emptied the trash and "bell.wav.wav.wav" disappeared from the Spotlight list, but "bell.wav.wav" did not.
I repeated the above using an mp3 file and exactly the same things occurred, except that iTunes did not add a new extension to each iteration of the file (they were all called "test.mp3" rather than "test.mp3", "test.mp3.mp3" and "test.mp3.mp3.mp3").
I had never noticed this behavior before and I will look into it some more. I have recently imported some cds to manually put on my iPod, after which I deleted them from iTunes, so I have plenty of deleted file names to look for.

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