Can't Edit Info in iTunes 5

Since I have installed iTunes 5 I can't seem to edit song information. When I select more than one song to edit, it won't let me even choose "Get Info." When I select one song, I can choose "Get Info" but when I actually click on the info I'm not able to edit it at all. Why can't I change my song info?

Jason,
Launch disk utilities and do a "Repair Permissions" also make sure that you have read/write access to the "iTunes" folder, to all files in there (especially the Library files) as well as to all music files.

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