ITunes 7.1: Won't play some audio

I use the program Soundtaxi (on my Windows PC) to convert my music before adding it to my iTunes library (on my MacBook).
Everything worked perfectly fine until I upgraded to iTunes 7.1. Now, iTunes will not play any music file that was encoded with Soundtaxi (says encoded with: Soundtaxi Platinum in the Get Info of the file). Now when I hit play on the files, iTunes switches the length of the music file to 0:00 and skips right over the song.
Most of my music would be like this except I used iTunes to convert a bunch of the Soundtaxi files a while back so those now say encoded with: iTunes 7.0.2, Quicktime 7.1.3 (even though they were originally encoded by Soundtaxi). Another interesting thing is that the songs encoded with an older version of Soundtaxi still play (it says encoded with: ST v1.0).
I am wondering why with the update to iTunes 7.1 iTunes will no longer play those files which it used to have no problem with playing. I also wonder if this is an accident or if files encoded by Soundtaxi were purposefully blocked.
I hope someone (probably an Apple employee) knows why iTunes will no longer play those files anymore. I really like iTunes, but if it can't play my music that it used to I do not know how I am supposed to use it.
Thanks,
Craig

SoundTaxi files created prior to v 2.2.7 do not play on iTunes v 7.1.1.5. Go to SoundTaxi and download trial version and use old license code to avoid paying again (so said AudioTaxi support). Workaround for old files and discussion here:
http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=193739

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