Can't "Join Tracks" Again

My computer has OS 10.8.5 and i Tunes 11.1.5 (5).
I downloaded 4 audio books this last month and joined tracks on all. Today the join tracks feature is GONE. I have to download a book with 17 discs and at least 10 tracks per disc, 170 tracks give or take a few so that ˆcan convert to MP3 to shrink the volume. This afternoon I downloaded the iTunes 11.1.5 (5) to try to fix the issue, no luck. I'm wondering if there is a limited number of times this feature can be used and then it goes away. The last time this happened join tracks was gone for at least 2 years. It gets frusturating when it doesn't work. Think Genius Bar could help?

Join CD tracks
When you import songs from a CD into iTunes, you can group songs so they always play together (even when you’re shuffling songs).
Insert an audio CD into your computer’s CD or DVD drive, and click No in the window that appears.
When the songs on the CD appear in the iTunes window, hold down the Shift key to select the ones you want to join.
Click near the top-right of the iTunes window, and choose Join CD Tracks.
ps: I tried this and when the cd was inserted there wasn't a new window that opened, but in the top right corner of iTunes there was an option to join tracks.
Hope this helps.

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Like others I have being loading audio books where each track is joined to form one but in the last few days this problem arose.
What puzzled me was that having brought 4 books home from the library I was able to properly open the first book and process it as usual. This now sits in the system correctly identified and joined up. When I attempted to load the 2nd book it was possible to load the first 2 cds but on attempting to process the 3rd. the join tracks was greyed out. No matter what I tried it was not possible to load that cd or any subsequent ones. Books 3 and four suffered the same fate.
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Image 1. Only one track selected - so Join CD Tracks is not shown:
Image 2. Tracks 1 & 2 selected, so Join CD Tracks is available:
Image 3. Although tracks 1 & 2 are selected, the track list is in reverse order, so Join CD Tracks is not available:
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Help,
This is NOT the problem where the tracks are out of order so the Join CD Tracks is grayed out. It's a different problem.
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As of the last few days, when I try to join CD tracks, it says it's joining hundreds of tracks, and when I drag the joined tracks to my itunes folder it just chimes and refuses to copy.
In the past, the little drag icon would list the number of joined tracks (like 12), now it shows a number like 283. And it won't copy. I did a software update recently. Has something changed to this feature?
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*as soon as I load i CD itune starts to import even though I have it set in preff not to do so.*
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