Need Help Getting LPs into iTunes

There have to be millions (at least hundreds of thousands) of people who own BOTH an iPod and stacks of old LPs, and have the desire to get those albums onto their iPod, so I am hoping this is a solved problem.
I have used Audio Cleaning Labs 10 to "input" an LP, and have then exported it, both as .WAV and .MP3 files. I used the "Tracklist" feature of ACL10 to name the songs, but I can't find anywhere in the program to name the artist or album. When I "Import" the songs into iTunes, they show up pretty much unlabeled, and are stored in the iTunes music folder under "Unknown Artist." I can go through one song at a time and type the song, artist, album title, genre, etc into iTunes, but the songs still don't get stored in the normal [Artist] - [Album] iTunes dual folder format. I tried simply dragging the songs into the iTunes music folder in this format, but when I launch iTunes it doesn't know they are there - apparently you have to officially "Import" them.
Can anyone give me some guidance on how to make this work? I have about 300 LPs I'd like to have on my iPod, but right now I am getting nowhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Clark

are you sure you are importing you only use import to import an audio CD. If you all ready have the files on your PC or they are data files on a CD you need to use File>add folder/file.
once you add them and edit the tags in iTunes they should drop into the right iTunes folders.
Have done this myself so know it works

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