Bug in Track Naming when importing folder?

Hey All-
Hopefully this is an easy problem to fix! I just imported my entire mp3 collection which on my HD labeled like this:
D:\mp3\Artist - Album\01 - Track Name.mp3
... and so forth. I have spent alot of time making sure all my tags are correct; each mp3 has ID3v1 and ID3v2 Tags which are synchronized.
When I import this folder; D:\mp3 into iTunes it correctly displays the Artist and Album information, but it screws up the Track Name. Instead of showing the Track Name only in the browser view, it shows:
Artist - Track Name
Interestingly enough, when I play a file, the iTunes then recognizes the Track Name properly and resets the view to the proper Trackname only.
Here is a picture which accurately shows the problem:
http://img418.imageshack.us/my.php?image=itunesbug9st.jpg
If I then sync this entire library to my iPod, the track names have this same layout; Artist - Trackname.
Obviously I can't go through 5000 or so songs and play them all until they are displayed properly... is there anything else I can do?
Thanks!
Erik

is there anything else I can do?
Hi Erik,
yes the best thing would be make a copy of your post and paste it in the windows forum ... by the way welcome to the Apple Discussions as you are not running a MAC your question would be best served in the special
iTunes for windows forum. Click here
sounds like you need to 'add to library' all your songs... check it out in the other forum Erik gets confusing otherwise ... good luck ... TP

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