Non-Roman Characters (Korean/Japanese/Chinese) appearing as boxes

Hey,
I've had this problem before, but it has seemed to fix itself in the past. But ever since the release of iTunes 9, I've been having a constant problem with any Kanji, Kana, or Hangul appearing in my library for the program. Instead of appearing as the foreign song title, the names only appear as squares or little boxes.
When I load the songs to my iPod, the problem does not seem to persist there. Doing a lot of research, I feel that this is a problem having to do with unicode. I know for the fact that my computer is capable of reading Korean/Japanese, since it works in other programs as Office 2007, and even Windows Media Player.
On another note, right clicking these problematic songs while browsing my library will bring up "Play 'suchandsuchsong'" in the right characterization. These songs show up normal in windows explorer. However, Right clicking it in while in windows explorer and selecting properties will give me the little boxes as well.
I hope I've given enough information to explain my problem, and I will be very grateful for a solution to this problem which many people seem to have.
Edit: Additionally, solutions like changing the ID3 tags have not helped, but this might be because they were rather ambiguous in their directions (such as the solution given by iTunes in the iTunes Help).
Message was edited by: svarogexodeus

I didn't have the problem of showing boxes, but I had a similar problem of the korean characters showing in symbols. To fix, I (1) right clicked on the song. (2) Chose Convert ID3 Tags. (3) Checked "Reverse Unicode" Box, then hit "OK". You can highlight as many songs as you want at once and still perform the same thing, to save you time.
Hope this helps you.

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