ITunes burns wrong song

Using itunes 7.4.2....I am trying to burn one AAC m4p file that I purchased from iTunes on to a CD. My preference settings are set to Audio CD. I created a playlist with the single song....click Burn at the bottom right of iTunes....everything seems to proceed normally...the information in the top center window shows the correct name of the tune as the burning occurs....but when the CD is completed.... its the wrong song that appears on the CD.. Each time I have made a burn the same song which has nothing to do with the playlist appears. I tried deleting the original playlist and created a new one... repaired permissions etc and the result has been the same on several disks. Any ideas or help will be appreciated.

John...you suggest.... "Oh you have to tell iTunes to convert songs into the format that you want. Go to iTunes>Preferences>Advanced>Import. From there those the import file type to AAC. AIFF is just another file format like AAC or MP3
Ok....even though the tune is already AAC I changed my preferences...as suggested and selected convert to AAC which the message will not allow... but tried another burn. Same as before...the burn is on the wrong song. Again, there is only one song in the playlist. What I was trying to do is buy a song from itunes....and use it in a home video...which requires an .aiff file. It used to be so easy....but not anymore. I think this is the end of my itunes adventures. I will simply buy the CD
I think itunes is very limited....Apple I am sure has their reasons....but this does not work for me anymore.

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