Disappearing Track Titles

I did a couple of searches and couldn't find a helpful article so I apologise if am being unoriginal here.
I am having a problem with importing songs from CDs. When I insert the CD the track names appear correctly but when I import them the track, artist and album titles disappear and I can't rename them manually, leaving those fields completely blank. The track plays ok though. This is the case for both my CD and DVD drives.
I'm running iTunes 7.4.3.1 on Windows XP. Thanks in advance for any help on this matter.

mh1989
If you are getting the library can't be saved error, that may well be your problem. I don't have a definte answer for this assuming things used to work and you haven't made any major changes to your system.
If you feel like an experiment, you could try rebuilding your library.
Close iTunes and drag BOTH iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml out of My Music\iTunes to your desk top.
Open iTunes and you should have an empty library
Select File>>Import
Navigate to your desktop and select iTunes Music Library.xml
This should rebuild your library, unfortunately it doesn't take all your counts and ratings.
If this doesn't work or you just want to go back to the original library, close iTunes. Navigate to My Music\iTunes and delete iTunes Library.itl. Now copy back the original iTunes Library.itl from your desktop. You don't need to worry about the xml file, that gets recreated by iTunes.

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