Organizing my library/folders

I have the "organize library" preference checked, and iTunes keeps everything organized on my office computer. On my home computer, it's not working. I just adding a folder of downloaded songs, and it won't correct the misspelled artist name, create folders for the two albums, or name the mp3s like I want (track number - track name). Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Wait, what did you do again? I just reloaded itunes on my computer, and am trying to rebuild my library and when i opended itunes and added "my music" folder, only about half of the sub-folders made it into itunes and the others didn't. I tried changing privacy settings on all the folders, I tried adding files one by one, folders one by one, nothing is working! Which is bizarre because all of the files look exactly the same (the ones that are in my library and the ones that aren't)
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