Album details blank when importing.

When I insert a new music CD (i.e.; Sony BMG, etc.), iTunes obediently opens and blindly lists the tracks and times (track 01, X:XX, etc.) but no details.
Even the artwork (which I can't imagine a Sony BMG album not including) doesn't appear (even if highliting a track, etc.).
Seems like either I'm missing some iTunes setting or there's a bug that requires the user to (before importing) go to iTunes main window>files>get info before the (buggy?) program will list the track titles, etc. Only then does 'my' iTunes importing list details. Still failed to show the artwork (i.e.; The Best Of Mandy Moore)
Does everybodies iTunes do this? Surprise me and answer no.

You're never going to get the artwork from
gracenotes/CDDB.
You can look it up yourself at places like amazon.com
or allmusic.com and cut/paste it into the song inof.
Or use Tag&Rename to get it automatically, free
30-day trial.
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
Thanks. Been screenshotting the Music store album covers, pasting them into paint, cutting the album out, converting them to jpeg and importing them into the CD info window. A lot of effort, but I avoid amazon, ebay and all those weird places who want my ccard and personal info.

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You've gotta love iTunes..
The last couple of days iTunes refuses to add songs/albume/artist etc name when importing music. Sometimes buying music at work, bring it home to load it into my iTunes here. I am doing nothing to the album, just burning it as it is. When I get home I put the cd in and iTunes finds it through Gracenote and everything looks to be in order. But upon importing all info about every single track is gone. All I get is # 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc and so forth.
This is starting to make me angry. Any solutions out there?
PS; tried importing both as mp3 and with "apple lossless"
PS2; tried importing three times now, and track # 1 and 2 is there, as they should, but the rest of the 30 tracks are just numbers.
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