I've never liked the way iTunes imports music. I listen 99.9% of the time to classical. iTunes thinks every movement of a symphony is a "song". I guess a lot of people these days don't care what order their "songs" are in and play them on shuffle anyway. I usually create a new playlist (which is essentially a folder) while I am importing the music. That way, I can see where iTunes is putting the music tracks (iTunes may file it under composer, orchestra or conductor, or name of work) and can move them to the playlist before I lose track of them.
Yep. What's more, every time I have ripped any version of Beethoven's Ninth into iTunes, it splits the 4th Movement into two parts. I actually used a third party program to fuse the final movement into one piece because that half second gap was so maddening.