Forcing iTunes to re-calculate normalization values?

hi,
I recently changed the volume level of many of my songs using an external program (mp3gain). The problem is that AFTER I did that, iTunes has never calculated the values for using normalization. Since it's using the values it calculated like 2 months ago, but the volume of my songs changed, normalization doesn't work as it should (obviously).
So what I need to do: I need to somehow force iTunes to re-calculate the values for normalization for each song, but I don't really know how except for deleting all songs and re-adding them (which would cause a loss of ratings/playcounts etc. so I don't want to do it this way).
Does anyone know how to force iTunes to do this?
thanks

Thanks. I've seen Otto42 around the foobar2k / HA forums.
From what I've seen in his posts here, I've got to re-import. But I've exported the podcasts as a .opml file. Hopefully this will retain the podcasts as actual podcasts (I love the bookmarking feature). I'll report back here after I'm done. Right now I've got MP3Tag stripping the "comment" fields from my .mp3s and the "itunnnorm" fields from my .m4a files.
:fingers crossed:

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