My Disappearing ID Tags..can anyone help?

Whenever I reinstall windows, I'll install the latest iTunes and import my Mp3's..60% of them are fine after importing, the rest though will either be imported as UnKnown Artist or Artist/Unknown Ablum...I'll manually go in and painstakingly change everything, but this is getting old. Does anyone know what might be causing this? Or how I can prevent this from happening next time? Also, from what I can tell, it isnt always the smae Mp3's that are losing their tags after each install.
Any help would be so very appreciated!
--- Mike

MidasMike wrote:
Whenever I reinstall windows,
Is there some reason you reinstall windows?
I'll install the latest iTunes and import my Mp3's..
You don't have to (and really shouldn't) reimport anything.
Just save the entire /My Music/ iTunes/ folder along with the rest of the data on your computer before you erase/reinstall.
Then put it back and everything is as it was.
You also should try running MP3Val on your MP3 files to correct any errors in the tags.
Some conversion programs are kinda flaky and write tags incorrectly or the tags may get messed up by other apps.
-> http://mp3val.sourceforge.net/

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