Info disappears in itunes are importing

Hi,
When i transfer songs that i have downloaded into itunes, that works fine. However when i then edit the info some of the info disappears.
An example: Artist Title and Name of Song after imported on the same line and then when i move the Artist to the Artist line and keep Name on the correct line. I right click and then press edit info but half the line disappears. This means then i have to type the rest of the info back in.
This only seems to happen after version 9 of itunes as before that everything worked. This is really annoying..
Please can someone help, its driving me crazy

Welcome to the club. I just tried to import a CD into iTunes this morning using an external DVD/CD drive and had the same problem. It asks me if I want to import the CD after getting the Gracenote info and when I hit the "YES" button everything goes dead in the drive. If I turn the drive off and then back on it imports OK. I tried an Iomega drive and it does the same thing. I haven't tried the internal drive on the iMac because I want to save that for important stuff (I have a 17" Powerbook, in which the DVD/CD drive went out on me after about two years of use). It cost a bundle to get it fixed so I decided it's a lot easier to replace an external drive ($99 from Other World Computing). I'm still under warranty for my iMac, so I'm going to try to contact Apple support and see if they can help me. I'll get back with you.

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