ITunes not recognizing ID3 tags

Hi, I installed iTunes last night on my PC and imported all my music into it. This seemed to work OK, but quite a few of the tracks are not showing the correct information in the list (e.g. just showing the track name, and not the artist, album etc).
I have checked and the ID3 tag info is present and correct on these MP3s - if I open it in Winamp and look at the file info I can see that the ID3v1 and ID3v2 information is all present and correct, but for some reason it is not being recognised by iTunes (on the Summary info screen for these files it says: "ID3 Tag: None").
Is there any way I can get iTunes to recognise these tracks? I don't want to have to do it manually as there are quite a few.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks in advance, Leo.

Leo: Yes, when I first imported my library, I found this case on several files.
In every instance, the ID3 tag itself was corrupted. What I later discovered was as follows:
-Corrupt ID3 tags are pretty commonplace
-Winamp is very lenient in its tag reading capabilities
-iTunes is not so lenient
There's a few ways to try to fix these files (since it is a problem with the file, technically).
-You can try to correct the tag using a good tagging program. I found Tag&Rename was capable of fixing most tags.
-You can erase the tag and retag the file entirely. TidyMP3 will remove the tag. Tag&Rename has nice Amazon.com lookup features for retagging whole albums at once (with art!).
But it is the tag at fault. Winamp is just incredibly forgiving, more so than any other program. And as such, it's not a good basis on which to judge the correctness of the file's tag.

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