Importing from iTunes

Hello, I think have a unique problem... My PC harddrive recently crashed permanently and I've since upgraded to a Macbook Pro. I had all my music stored on my iPod and used Music Rescue to get it off the iPod and on to my new computer... worked great... but when I try and import the music into GarageBand it won't allow me to??? From the sound of it from other users, the files could have been protected somehow during the transfers??? As the music that I have since added to my iTunes library can all be accessed easily by GarageBand. Is there anyway to fix this problem or am I SOL?
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance

So I tried that and it didn't work, then I tried dragging it directly from iTunes into GB and here it recognized that I could add it to the timeline (little green plus sign), but when I dropped it in it would get about 2 seconds into the importing phase and then stop... So same result and it still won't import. Any more suggestions? Again it is only with songs that I "rescued" from my iPod, not songs I've recently added.
Thanks again!

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How do I import from Itunes in a normal AAC file?
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ITunes - 8.1.1 (10 - up to date - library is held on an Airport Disk
White MacBook 80GB
Tiger
New problem just started occurring in Garageband. When you try to import a track from iTunes (via the media library screen in garageband, ie drag and drop), Garageband just quits back to the desktop. (Asks if you want to reopen, try again etc, but no effect).
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Message was edited by: Bill Hunt - Added link to Conforming Audio Article

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