ITunes can't rip songs

I'm using the latest greatest iTunes. I ripped CD's all weekend with no trouble. I tried this morning with several CD's - all opened just fine and all the songs were identified correctly. When I go to rip the CD's (Import CD) - the song gets imported way too fast (it finishes ripping a song in about 2 seconds) and the song lengths show up in the LIbrary as either 0 seconds or 766 seconds - and they don't play properly. this happened exactly the same way for 4 CD's in a row.
I ran a CD Drive Diagnostic - didn't report any errors.
What gives?
TIA!
chewmanfoo
iPod Video 60gig Windows XP Pro hand built Athlon 64 3500+

I'm having the same problem, iTunes rips the whole CD (its says the track time 4.5mins etc) yet when I try to play the track it plays about 3 seconds worth then jumps to the next track and does it again! The CD's are old and cant be copy protected??? How can I fix it?
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