ITunes fails to recognize when there is CD in CD drive

I was recently forced to upgrade to iTunes 7.0 in order to purchase music, and now it no longer recognizes when I put a CD in my disc drive, and thus I can no longer import music. However, when using another CD importing program, the drive performed perfectly. The only conclusion I was able to draw was that it was a problem with iTunes and not the drive. Has anyone had a similar problem, and how, if at all, were you able to solve it?
Windows XP

Same here. I hope someone comes up with an answer soon. Every question I've found in these forums so far that's applicable to my problems has not been answered.
Stopgap solution: I've been using File > Import, selecting the track by number (from a CD, it shows only Track 01, Track 02, etc.), at which point it will usually import, and then I right-click on the track and select Get Info to name the track, artist & album. Tedious. (I can NOT highlight all the tracks on an album at once with shift+click; it refuses to work.)
Even weirder: When I try to import Track 09 on 2 albums I've done this with so far, I get an error message: "Track 09.cda could not be imported because it does not appear to be a valid export file." Does iTunes have a problem with "Track 09" in general? There are other questions here about Track 09 resulting in the same problem.
Just got an unexpected iPod (that's why I'm using iTunes 7) or I wouldn't be using iTunes at all... I only accidentally worked out the problem of not being able to connect, and it still will not fetch any song/album info from Gracenote. This is really quite maddening.

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When transferring content from an older iOS device to a new one using iTunes, the following Knowledge Base article offers the steps on how to accomplish that:
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