Itunes 11 ignores ratinga in newly added tracks - why???

I have just removed all the music tracks from my itunes library (running on Windows 7). Then I added one folder that contained all my songs.
The songs were added but 95% of my ratings are gone. It looks like only .mp4 files (likely the ones I got from Apple store) have their ratings set properly or as they were set in the metadata of the files. It looks like all the other (mostly .mp3) files ended up with no ratings. It took me a lot of time to rate these songs and make sure that the ratings were stored in the metadata of the files. Now itunes 11 appears not to care about that at all...
Did anyone else notice that, i.e., had the same problem? What is it? I'd like to think that I did something wrong but I am affraid that Apple, in its wisodom is, yet again, is doing something that erases weeks of my work. Why would itunes not read ratings for newly added mp3 files? Windows Media Player reads the metadata properly for any mp3 or mp4 file added to its library.
Can anyone offer any inside view into this? Any idea if it is me missing something, or is it a bug in itunes 11 or is it Apple telling me to buy all my music from the Apple store?
Thanks.

I realized that the mp4 songs that have correct ratings were not really removed from my library - it looks like they are in the cloud.
In short it looks like itunes just ignores the ratings while adding new tracks. But why??? It is so easy to reset ratings after reading tracks in and so difficult to add them... What is the logic here...??? Thanks.

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