Getting itunes songs to play in working timeline

Howdy all. I'm new to final cut express but am learning a lot. I'm frustrated by my initial attempts to layer itunes audio though. I can get the tunes from my library to my working browser...and from there I drag it into my working timeline. However, when I click "play" all I hear is a recurrent beeping sound and not the music. After researching it I think I need to convert the track to an AIFF file, which I have tried to do. That's when I get a message saying my songs cannot be converted to an AIFF. The songs are paid for and legally downloaded through itunes so I'm frustrated as to why this should be. Can someone help me to get my itunes songs into my working timeline so they play?
Thanks!
Jered

Before people get all up in arms about copyright infringement and all, the iTunes agreement specifically allows you to use the audio Products for personal, noncommercial use. You are allowed to export, burn, or copy audio Products for personal non-commercial use. For iTunes plus content, you can copy, store, or burn these Products "as reasonably necessary" for personal, non-commercial use.
Using an iTunes song in a video being created for personal non-commercial use appears to be allowed by the agreement.
While we're on this subject, the original poster didn't ask us whether this was legal or not and it really has no bearing on solving their problem unless the problem is being caused by the digital rights management of iTunes. So, is the iTunes digital rights management preventing them from using an iTunes song or is it simply that it is an mp3 and needs to be rendered before it can be played in the sequence?
I suggest rendering the audio track because I had to do the exact same thing just two days ago (with a non-iTunes mp3). I did not convert the mp3 to AIFF or to a WAV or anything else, but I did have to render it in order to hear anything but a bunch of beeps.

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