How to upgrade bit rate of ripped CD's w/o losing edited track info

I am in the process of re-ripping my music library to iTunes at a higher bit rate.
An annoying thing that happens is that track information that I have edited (e.g. corrected erroneous track names, added artist info, or other changes to the info automatically gathered from Gracenote), or custom Genres that I use, automatically resets to the Gracenote values. Sometimes the changes I've made are quite comprehensive, entailing a lot of work.
(Album art is not removed, however. That seems to be the only field that isn't affected.)
What I want to do is just pop the CD in, click "Replace" in the dialogue, and have iTunes replace only the audio data itself - +leaving everything else untouched,+ thank you very much.
I have tried disconnecting my Internet connection prior to the operation, but for some reason, this does not help - the information is still reset to whatever was originally gathered from Gracenote. (Is the default information cached somehow, I wonder...)
So: How should I go about achieving the above? How do I preserve my laboriously edited information when re-ripping my CD's?

cderalow wrote:
If you understood what I mean, you'll understand why it loses the information that's associated with the original.
My own experience is when you re-rip a CD and iTunes asks you if you want to replace your current version, it WILL retain all your custom data you added to the tracks including ratings, playcounts, and tags like song name, comments, etc.
cderalow wrote:
it's annoying, I know. Which is why I'll generally choose to convert over re-rip.
Except converting doesn't gain you anything and may even degrade the tracks. The original poster wants a higher bitrate than originally ripped at. Converting up in bit rate won't gain you any quality. Re-ripping from the original CD will.
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