Import loses (some) track info on eject

When I import from a CD and use get track info, iTunes does the right thing. However, upon ejecting the CD, I often lose some, although usually not all, of the track info. Usually it just loses the first track info (maybe it's the one I played?) Sometimes it loses all the track info (but I haven't played all of them!) I can restore the info by re-doing the get track info from the library listing, but this is really weird and almost certainly a bug. (I'm on 1.1.1.11 -- weirdly :-)

ps. This is definately a bug. I just tested it several times under various conditions and it at least consistently loses the first track info (defaulting it back to "Track 1"), and sometimes more than just that one.

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