Adding multiple songs to iTunes from the Finder

The way I usually add songs to iTunes is to select multiple songs at once from the Finder and then add them all to iTunes. Now in Lion when I have two or more items selected it only adds and opens one of them instead of copying all of them to the iTunes folder. How do I add them all from the Finder into iTunes to save me some time.
Also the default file opener for .m4a, .mp3 etc. was changed to Audacity for no reason when I upgraded to Lion. I had to manually change it back to iTunes.

Can you do it the other way?
Open iTunes and on the File menu is Add to Library where you can choose which ones to import.
Regards,
Colin R.

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