ITunes is not allowing me to edit song info?

can anyone help me? I am trying to edit song info in iTunes on my new PC - Dell with Vista? When I try to change a field such as genre or song title, whatever, I can type the info in, but iTunes does not change the info.
Any help is much appreciated.
Peace

*Make sure the files are not marked Read Only and that you have Read/Write permissions to the files and the folders they are in.*
Can I get a bit more Info then this Were to I look to see if they are Read Only

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Jeremy610 wrote:
There doesn't appear to be any pattern to this, but when I am downloading new MP3s into iTunes (9.0.2) either from Amazon or eMusic, some of them come in normally and some of them come in without allowing me to edit any of the song information. This can happen even within one album, when all the songs are arriving in the library during the same download session. And yet some allow editing and some don't.
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+Quit iTunes.+
+Open a Finder window.+
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+Directly below are ( + ) and ( - ) signs next to a little gear with a down arrow+
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