Importing music to my FCE project

Hello,
I am having trouble importing a song from itunes. I have put the song into itunes for the purpose of importing it into my FCE project. I save the song on itunes, go to FCE and import file, gives me the selection up until the song and it is not highlighted.
Should I be doing this another way?
Todd

Is this a song purchased from the iTunes Music Store?
http://www.fcpbook.com/Audio4.html

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