One track is always truncated when I try to import

Question

This is the weirdest thing. I am running iTunes 7.7 on my MacBook, although this problem appears to have occurred ages ago when I originally ripped this CD.
It's a store-bought classical CD, which I very much like. When I put it in the drive, it shows up in iTunes, and all of the track lengths show up correctly. The crucial one here is track 1, which is 8:30 long. If I play it from there, I get the whole track, no problems.
If I then import the CD, all of the tracks come in correctly, except this one. It comes in as only being 2:12 long. That is, if I look at the CD, it still claims to be 8:30 and it claims to have successfully imported, but if I look at the music library, it claims to be 2:12, and when I play it, it's truncated.
I checked the start and stop times with Get Info, and they match what I'm seeing -- if I try to set the imported file to be 8:30, it won't let me do it.
The CD was made in 1990, if that's relevant (I was wondering if perhaps there was some attempt at copy-protection denying me a legal use).
When I try to copy the file by drag-and-drop from CD to desktop, I also get an error, so I'm wondering if the file is just corrupted on the CD. (Other files on the same CD copy okay.)
I've rebooted, I've reimported, I've tried everything I could think of. I have no earthly idea what's going on here.
Any ideas? Any way to recover this piece of music if the CD is corrupted such that it only allows playback but cannot be copied?
-- Aimee

Answer 1

It sounds like there might be some weird error on the disc. iTunes' ripper isn't necessarily the best for dealing with damaged discs, give this one a whirl:
http://sbooth.org/Max/