Can't enter/change info for songs...

I can change the info for some of my songs but not for most of them. Why is this?

Check that the problem files are not read only.
If they are MP3s, there can sometime be problems with tag versions. Try selecting a track and right click on it. Select Convert ID3 tags. Try converting to none. It might be as well to experiment with a copy.
Otherwise check the permissions on your music folder, but if this was a problem I would expect everything to be affected.
Your account needs full control of any music folder.

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OK. I am assuming that while you have a single iTunes or iTunes Music folder on the shared folder, each use account is probably maintaining its own database file for their own libraries, right? In other words, each user has different libraries with different playlists and ratings and stuff like that?
On your first question, on the account with non-admin privileges, does that folder show up as read only? If so, you may have to go in on an admin account and change the setting of that folder to allow ANYONE write access to it.
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