ITunes id3 Issue

Long story short, I just got a new macbook because my old mbp broke and I installed a 500gb hd so that I could store all my music on it (previously, my library was too big for the mbp hd so I kept my music on an external).
Anyway, I put all of my music in iTunes and somehow discovered that some 300+ of them were listed under unknown artist / unknown album. Previously, I had nothing listed there and meticulously gone through the id3s many times. I opened up the folder and found the songs sitting there - I deleted them from iTunes and tried readding them, but they again appear with no id3 information except the name of the track (identical to the file name - not as I had had them).
Quite annoying. However, when I looked at the files individually, I just did a quick look preview of them and it listed the id3 information (such as album and artist), so it's obviously there, but for some reason iTunes isn't recognizing it.
Any thoughts?

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Wow, that was a long and detailed post. I haven't the energy to reply in equal fervor, but I will just say that lately these boards have been peppered with posts from people whose MP3s are being eaten alive by iTunes. What I don't get is why you suspect the hard drive is at fault. Unless the rest of the system is caving in, I don't think there's any reason to suspect a failing drive. Check the S.M.A.R.T. status in Disk Utility if you haven't already, and perform whatever maintenance you believe is in order.
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