Audiobooks not showing up in Audiobooks Genre

Some of the audiobooks I have purchased from the ITunes store show up in my Audiobooks menu on my iPod, but some of them do not. Does anyone know why this is and how to fix it. The audiobooks play fine and I put them in a playlist to listen to them, but it just seems strange that they don't go where the others have gone.
Now, I also own some audio books on CD. When I import them, they don't go into the Audiobooks menu in iTunes or on my Audiobooks menu on my iPod. Any way to make that happen?
I have attempted to change the genre to get them to 'move' but that hasn't worked for me in the past. I am open to ideas.
DP

As people have already pointed out, you have to rename the files from ".m4a" to ".m4b". If you only have a few, it's easy enough to open a command prompt and "rename *.m4a *.m4b" in the right directory. Then you have to add the files into iTunes again, and delete the "old" tracks that are now "dead" because you renamed the files.
Or, you could use a program I wrote to make this a little easier. Just download this and run it, select the tracks you want to move (they must be AAC-encoded), and click "Move Files to Audiobooks".
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/audiobook_helper/index.html
* I may receive financial compensation from my link (there's a paypal donation button -- but donation is optional!)

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