Music Management & iTunes???  Help Please!

I have several issues that I'm hoping someone can give me some helpful hints for. I looked through about 23 pages of forum posts, but couldn't find exactly what I'm looking for.
I have music stored all over my computer. It's in various directories & folders, rather randomly slung all over my HD. Some of it was due to a computer upgrade a couple years ago that I never bothered to clean-up properly after the move. The rest is due to just poor import/copy management.
Short of doing a labor intensive manual clean-up (i.e. creating a new master folder, copying everything into it and deleting any unwanted or duplicates) ... can iTunes still do a system search and copy it all in to one main folder? There used to be a "search system" feature, but I've yet to find it in 7.5.0. I tried using the library consolidation feature, but that accomplished exactly nothing. IIRC from another post, it was supposed to ask me where/what I wanted to consolidate. No such luck. Just a button to push that said "consolidate". That I can see, no real change was made.
My other question is ... if I do do a manual clean-up is there a method for doing a fresh re-creation of my library while keeping my playlists and podcasts intact?
I really really need a music management overhaul, but don't particularly want to spend a week doing it.
Thanks~
Kat

+I did try the add a folder command ... that picked up a few, but not all.+
That could mean a couple of things. There is a known problem with Add Folder where it will sometimes fail to complete on large adds. If that is what's happening, do it in smaller batches by adding subfolders. The other thing that could be happening is incompatible files. Try to add a missing file individually using File > Add File to Library. If it does not add, there is an issue with the file.
+So that brings me to my next question. Once I get together a master folder with all my wanted songs in one place ... what is going to be the best way to rebuild my library while keeping my playlists intact?+
Once the files are in your iTunes library, do not manually move or rename anything. Use the Consolidate command. It retains play counts, playlist membership, etc.
By the way, if you haven't backed up your hard drive lately, now would be a good time to do so.

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