"Add to library" does not import everything.

I'm having a very annoying problem... I have all my music on an external harddrive and I import into iTunes without allowing iTunes to either copy the files or organize them for me. That's that... I want to keep my own organization scheme. In principle this works fine, but... every once in a while I'll completely delete my iTunes library and reimport everything, and this is where the trouble starts.
Let me first say that I don't care about play counts or playlists. It would be nice to preserve these, but I understand that this is not so easy, and I accepted that. However, I would like iTunes to import *all* my music, which it doesn't. I have a main folder called Music (or something) and under that go all the folders for artists (e.g. Beatles and Bob Dylan). Under that I have folders for all the albums. Now, when doing a folder import on the top folder (Music), iTunes misses about half of all the songs. This is completely stupid and very annoying. When I select one of the missing folders manually, it works fine and the missing music is added. What's happening here? Am I doing something wrong? My music collection is *huge* and I simply cannot identify everything that's missing and import manually (at least in a reasonable amount of time).
Oh, and incidentally... what is also annoying is that even though the album artwork is present in the mp3 files, it is not displayed by iTunes at first. Only if I click on the album, it finally loads and is visible from thereon. Hmmm... easy to do with 10 albums, but I have more. Trust me, I don't want to be clicking each one or them or wait until I get around to listening to each one of them. Any ideas about that?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Meant to tackle this one earlier. Chances are your problem files have multiple ID3 tags with inconsistent information and iTunes is only reading one of them.
If the tags read cleanly in a 3rd party tag editor or something like MediaMonkey then you should be able to delete any id3v1.x tags and settle on id3v2.3. In extreme cases you may wish to erease all tags and then rebuild from the file paths, though that presupposes that you have or can get the tracks in a standard <Artist>\<Album>\## <Track> layout.
Once you've fixed the tracks you can either delete and then reimport, or attempt to get iTunes to notice the changes by playing each track (briefly) in turn. I've written a script called UpdateTagInfo which should automate the process of getting iTunes to read any changed metadata but I've not tested its effectiveness lately.
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