ITunes doesn't update Title in ID3 tags

So, I've searched through this forum and found several problems that are similar to mine...but not 100% the same. When trying the new game Audiosurf, I found that it didn't recognize a few songs--it said that the title was "Unknown". Well, I know that all of my songs have titles in iTunes, so I did some investigating. It turns out that for a small percentage of my library, the Title in the ID3 tag is not complete--although the Album, Artist, Genre, etc. tags are! I'm verifying this using a 3rd party ID3 tag viewer, and even can see this by right-clicking the file in Windows Explorer and looking at the advanced summary.
So I've tried several things within iTunes to get the ID3 tag to be written, including setting the files to have no ID3 tag (via the "Convert ID3 Tags..." dialog, as suggested in this forum) and then bringing them back. The tag is correctly removed, but when I restore the tag the Title is still left blank. Many of the files have "Unknown" as the encoder, but I have several that are either "Unknown" but have a title, or are iTunes encoded but don't have a title.
The "easiest" thing that works for me is to modify the song title and then modify it back. This will finally create the Title field in the ID3 tag. So...does anyone know a faster way to do this? Some way to select these songs and force iTunes to update the ID3 tags (besides changing the tag type, which I have already tried)? I fear there is no easy way...I have some ideas with my ID3 tag program I downloaded, but I'd much rather do it in iTunes.
Thanks!

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