Omit repeated songs when importing

Hi, before this last version of itunes (8.0.2) when i tried to add new songs and if this songs where already in my playlist appeared an box asking what i wanted to do "omit the songs that is already in my play list or duplicate". Now with this version doesn't ask anything, just add more duplicated songs!! Thats very bad, cause i put the new songs i have on a folder than, just import all the new folder so the new songs can appear on my playlist.
Does anyone knows why this version doesn't show this message to omit the repeated songs when importing new? Is something that i have to do to habilitate this ?
please help
Thanks!!

I was just about to ask the same question, I have it set to organize and make a copy to library, which i understand, that just stores the song in an itunes folder, and changes the track names but why does it make 2, sometimes 3 of the same track in the same folder? These are labeled the same in the folder with a 1 or 2 after them.
It makes copies of some songs but not all. The CD I just dragged and dropped, disc one of the new Big Star set, it did it with every song but track 1.
This has been happening as long as I can remember and seems to happen in surges. Very annoying to check every other song and delete them. Any fixes?
Even when doing one album this is time consuming and untrustworthy, but inserting a large collection, no matter if you define that as 100 or 100,000 albums would be impossible to manage this.
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