Can't Convert Wav to AAC

I have been adding my lecture files (Olympus Digital Wave player) to my iTunes for several semsters now. I realized that I needed to convert the wav files to AAC files in order for my iPod to play them. For some reason, I have not been able to convert the files this semester and I don't know why or what has changed. Everytime I try to convert one of them, iTunes says: "Error occurred while converting the file "PHSC 10-28-08". The disk could not be read from or written to." The files are on the hard drive. iTunes is looking at the files in its own directory since I've already added them to the library. The hard drive has plenty of space.
Anyone have any suggestions? I have checked and double checked to make sure the folders and individual files are not marked as read only. I'm becoming really irritated. I'm halfway through the semester and have finally run out of patience and I am begging for help!

I hadn't tried playing them as wavs in iTunes until you asked. It turns out they won't even play as wavs. It acts as though each file is a second or so and thinks it's played it and then moves onto the next one.
These aren't music files. They are lectures from my classes. I have removed them from iTunes, telling it to send them to the recycle bin, and then reimported them several times. Burning them to CD and then bringing them into iTunes that way would require doing it twice a week.
I was able to play them through RealPlayer so there is nothing wrong with the original wav file, just something wrong when iTunes brings it over to the iTunes area.

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