Can't customize track information on Itunes 11.01

This might take awhile.  A month ago, I purchased a new MBP which is running Itunes 11.01.  So, I had to redo all of my playlists.  I have well over a million different audio files/music tracks.  I download A LOT of live music from different artists.  Some of it gets vey involved and I like to put all the information I can into the track, so often after a track's title, I will add the date and sometimes where the track was recorded if relevant to me.  I'm very thorough.
When I first opened this new Itunes (I really HATE the interface and esign of it comapred to the old version 10 I had on my old Macbook which died), I started to move files in and saw that some of the information I had personally added to the tracks was not there.  NO biggie.  I started to re-customize them and it all seemed fine UNTIL, I woud remove them from the playlist and then try to put them back in, then all of the preferences I added were gone and it looked blank again.
It might be hard to understand but I am really anal about my music and want to be able to see the information when I want.  I need to know it's there.  Just a tick of mine.
So, can anyone tell or show me, how i to allow this version of Itunes to let me customize the tracks I want and to leave them that way?  It's not saving th extra info I put on each track and I can't find anyhting to help me in the settings folder.
Thank you.

hey, what system are you using? I use Windows Media Player. If you use that, put the CD in your drive.
then play a song
at the bottom corner of your screen, there should be a musical note
then above the note (just a bit) there should be a link for you to click
it says edit album info or something along those lines
click it and edit your song info

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