10.5.8 bizarre behavior when ripping CDs

After upgrading, when I import my CDs, many tracks are ripped for only a couple of seconds. Other tracks are correct and still others will be skipped when you try to play them back and these all show a track ending time of 789:57:13.152. This has happened with over 5 commercial CDs. Import setting is AAC iTunes Plus. Have also shut down and tried importing again - same result. When I try with MP3, I get the same result, except instead of track time being 789:57:13.152, it lists "Unavailable" Very weird - in 8 years of using iTunes have never seen anything like this.

1: all correct
2: seems to be fine for everything else
3: cd's new and previoulsy played and clean
4&5: how do I do these last two items
Any other advise. I have run disc utilities and permissions over the hard drive and tried a separate log in with no effect

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