Can't change the genre in iTunes 9

Anyone else have this issue? I can't change it at all. If I click on it, it lets me type it in the field but doesn't hold the change. Same with right-clicking into Get Info.

I am having a similar problem since I upgraded to iTunes ver. 9 a couple of days ago. When adding music to my library using "file > add folder to library", on average about one song per album doesn't import completely and when I try to edit the info (get info), it is grayed out and not accessible. Most of the time I am able to remedy this by going back and doing a "file > add file to library" for just the affected song, but this is kind of a pain when adding a lot of music files. Every once in a while, just re-adding the file doesn't work and I actually have to close the iTunes app and reopen it, at which point I can see it adding the song in the status bar. Looks like a glitch with the new version maybe?

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