"locked" track info?

Alrighty. I just got a new computer and I spent the past couple hours copying all my old information into it, yadda yadda.
iTunes was installed and I got all my music into it, and things were going swell.
WHEN SUDDENLY!
iTunes decided to no longer allow me to edit anything about any song. I try to change the titles, nothing happens. I try to change the albums, nothing happens. I can't even change the genre. I tried clicking in each section of the track description on the track list, both double-clicking, slow double-clicking, right-clicking, etc...
My friend suggested I opened the information on the songs individually, but when I did that, the entire information tab was locked.
How do I fix this problem? ;__; I was so happy with this whole escapade with my new machine until it betrayed me and stopped recognizing me as master. XD
Thanks a lot in advance. <3
Message was edited by: Hagglefish

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!
Here's what I did:
I figured that downgrading to a previous itunes version might work, so I went to filehippo.com and tried to download 7.4. On the first attempt at this, I received an error message saying that it could not be installed because a later version (7.5) was already installed. So I knew then that in order for this to work I would have to uninstall the itunes application. Because I was afriad that doing so might permanently delete all of my playlists and song play counts, I created a system restore point before performing the uninstallation (it ended up being unnecessary). So then I uninstalled itunes and restarted my computer to make that take effect. After restarting I went back to filehippo and downloaded and installed 7.4. I opened up itunes 7.4 and all of my playlists were intact. When I clicked get info on the songs whose titles didn't download, the titles suddenly appeared. I am able to edit all song info now with 7.4.

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