ITunes 11 adding songs to Library which don't show up but can be found by Searching - but can't be player

Hello,
I got a little problem here...
My iTunes 11 won't show the titles of a new album i tried to import!
I imported them the normal way, after this i recognized there was a problem, i had the album two times. I tried to fix it by changing the album name on every track again... It didn' work so I removed the tracks from my Library... then I wanted to reimport them, but... they just didn't come up...
I looked for them and found them in my Media folder. I deleted them there again and tried to import again... Nothing... they just won't appear in iTunes but are always present in the Media folder!
I can also search for the band in iTunes and can find it, but if i press play (also if the songs can be found in the Media folder) it won't do that... it just doesn't show them, i can't remove them from my Library and can't play them!
Does anyone have a solution for a problem like this?
Sorry If my english is bad at the moment, but i'm very tired and the day wasn't funny at all...

Hi Air Flute
Welcome to the Apple Discussions
Go to this FAQ http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=122021
Repair Permissions as it says then follow a link to one of the Utilities to run the Cron Scripts (I use MacJanitor as it is free).
8:51 PM Saturday; February 3, 2007

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