Trouble with Files organizing into Folders.

I am really frustrated with Itunes today. I am trying to reorganize my library from scratch. All of my music is saved to an external Hard Drive, from which I will be pulling music from and adding it back into my Itunes library. My problem is that I can't stand it when Itunes organizes my music into folders.
Artists > Albums > Songs. I dont want this. I just want all of my tracks to be in one folder, organized by name. Now I when I go to preferences and under te advanced tab, the "Keep Itunes Media Folder Organized" box is UNCHECKED. And it is still organizing my songs into folders when I add my music to itunes.
I am pulling my hair with frustration on this one and I dont know what to do... PLEASE HELP!

I'm suddenly having this problem also. "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" have NEVER been checked.
On March 2, 2012, iTunes updated and now all the songs that were in my Singles folder were renamed and moved into individual Artist folders that never previously existed. I now have 1000s of Artist folders with a single song in each. I also now have 1000s of exclamation marks in front of the songs in my library because iTunes can't find the songs it moved!
I've spent several days reversing what iTunes has done and I'm still not finished. I'm also concerned about the next iTunes update destroying my days and days of work by moving my music again.
How do I prevent iTunes from renaming/moving my music files when I'm not allowing the program to do that in the first place?

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