Editing info for multiple files in Itunes, not working

Ok, first off, I'm a BRAND NEW Mac user and having a few problems crossing over. Here's the deal...
I've got an external hard drive with about 200 Gigs of music all in separate folders. I'm loading all my songs into Itunes, but keeping them copied only to my external drive...no problem.
However, some of the songs in Itunes are showing up with no artist and/or album names because this info is not in the ID3 tags (im assuming) of the mp3s.
When I goto "get info" and try to manually type in the artist name/album name and click "ok"...NOTHING CHANGES. They still show up in the list blank. Why aren't my edits to the files changing? How can I fix this?
Thanks in advance for all your help everyone!

Does it matter that this drive used to be used only on my windows machine?
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Post over here and ask about it -> http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1225
See if it is formatted FAT32 or NTFS and include that info.

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