Add file to library. Track names added to iTunes (10.5), but Album information missing

I moved my music folders on my PC, then deleted all the songs from iTunes. Before I did that my library was in perfect shape. When I "File>Add Folder to Library" all the tracks came in, however, for any tracks whose titles begin with track numbers, iTunes doesn't add album information. See tracks with pre-pended numbers in this screenshot. No album information!
The album folders in Windows are still intact, and Explorer listings of the folders show the album names as well. So windows knows the names of the albums. iTunes isn't finding them. See below.
Why isn't iTunes reading the album names. My library is now a mess! Now I've got thousands of tracks without album information. I can't do all of them manually. Any ideas?
Thanks so much!

My script picks up the information in the path the file is stored at, which generally yields Album Artist, Album, Track Number & Track Name. My own personal file name convention sets the filename to ## <Name> - <Artist> when Artist != Album Artist and my script can read that data back again. In your case we really want to get down to the reason why iTunes isn't reading the tag that is there, and eveidently readable by Windows Explorer.
Here's a thought... Backup one of the files that includes something visibly different in the contributing artists field. Right click on the file in iTunes and select Convert ID3 Tags... > None. Now try playing the file in question. Does the extra data appear? If not give the same process at least one more go.
As I mentioned earlier the ID3 spec allows for multiple tags to be attached to a single file, e.g. both V2 and V1 for backwards compatability or even multiple tags of the same version but in different languages. What isn't obvious is what rules applications are supposed to use to give preference from one to the other. I'm struggling to find a tag editor that is aware of this issue though there are some that can display V1 & V2 tags and even copy data from one to the other. I don't offhand have a definite recommedation however.
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