Editing info problems

Hi, I've started getting a problem where when I edit my artist info, or put a name to it, it won't stay after I press OK and just reverts to the original artist or no artist at all, whatever it was before. Hope that makes sense. Can anyone please help?
Cheers, Julia

Thanks for trying to help, but I'm afraid I don't get what you mean! I don't use Windows Media Player. The problem's just got worse though as I just copied a new CD onto itunes, the details were imported correctly from the internet, but when the songs were copied onto itunes, only half of them have the artist title and won't let me type it in for those that haven't.

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I realize that iTunes will read file names on the CD if they are burned into the CD. I used Toast for some recent CDs I burned on the MBP awhile ago and voila, those files names are appearing whern I pop the CD in. I cannot edit them so that iTunes remembers them though unless I import whatever track I wanted to edit the info from. OK. That's a step backwards but OK. (I realize I am not editing the info on the CD itself. Once a CD is burned that's impossible, I would only be editing the info that iTunes has about it...) Most of the CDs I have burned do not have track titles as file names.
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I have moved the CD Info.cidb file to my desktop and edited some info. ITunes is NOT creating a new CD Info.cidb file.
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