ITunes 5 silently fails when importing MP3 if MP3 is bad

I have been ripping some MP3's from CD with a tool other than itunes (so that I don't have to rip twice to put on another machine) and if I have a MP3 that ripped and was bad, Itunes doesn't do anything, it just fails silently.
If I attempt to open it with quicktime, quicktime complains it doesn't understand the format of the file, which seems to be what itunes is failing silently over.
Maybe a dialog box if something FAILS in itunes?
-troy

Ye playing the file should automatically add it to iTunes but its not since I updated iTunes.
The music plays and I can see the the time bar in the window on the top of iTunes but the file is not located in the iTunes library or anywhere in iTunes so I cant right click it.
At the moment the mp3 file is on my desktop. Normally dropping and dragging it into iTunes adds it into my 'iTunes' folder in the 'Music' folder.. but this is not happening. I've tried manually adding the file into the 'iTunes' folder using the appropriate folder titles etc.. but iTunes will not detect the new mp3's. Wierd!!
I think I might just have to re-install iTunes

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hello Florida!
it is an itunes has encountered an error.
does your PC have dual cores or dual processors? if so, there's a hyperthreading problem which has been producing that error message when importing. try Otto's trick here:
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Dell XPS 400 Windows XP Pro 2.73 GHz processor, 1024 RAM
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Well, thanks for all the help, folks.
After playing around with every permutation I could think of under preferences\advanced\importing, in desparation (because the problem kept getting worse - to the point that I couldn't import any joined tracks at all) I allowed a version update to 6.0.4.2.
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