MP3's

I hope someone can help me. I am trying to import songs from the i-tunes store as mp3. I set mny preference to do so but they are still being imported as mp4(?)
ANy one have any idea how to fix this.
I am trying to download music for use in a slide show in Photshop Lightroom. In the PS Lightroom instructions it actually tells you to create a playlist in i-tunes, but the songs will not work. Lightromm is supposed to support mp3's but can't get i-tunes to convert them to mp3 after download either.
HELP!!!!!!!!

Songs from the iTunes store are only available in AAC (MP4) format. Apart from the recently announced downloads of higher quality songs from EMI (which aren't available yet), you can't convert a standard iTunes song due to the DRM (Digital Rights Management) copy protection. However if you burn it to an Audio CD you can import it back as MP3. You'll lose some quality in the process but you'll be able to use the track on other devices.

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Okay, some more information as I try and track down the source of the problem.
By using an id3 tag editing program - ID3 Editor - I was able to view the song information for each track, even though all the other music players I had tried would not show it. If I then chose to modify and update the ID3 information, this would somehow modify the tags in such a way that they become readable in all other programs.
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!
You were absolutely right, Rob. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. I've got nearly 200 Artist folders with 1,000 or so Album folders - and they are all completely empty of music.
But in the middle of that long list of folders, there is an innocuous looking folder labelled "Music." I looked inside that folder and, bam, there they were - all 92 gigabytes of my missing music files in a complete copy of all those Artist and Album folders.
I thought I was going crazy! How could iTunes be playing all this music when as far as I could tell, it had all vanished? But there it was. As you said, iTunes had simply moved it down a level in the folder hierarchy and then didn't delete all the original folders.
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