Please help me migrate back to iTunes...

Hello,
I have been an iTunes user some years ago - and now want to go back, but I have questions and trouble. Please assist...
Since iTunes could not handle my growing library (then 50.000, now 100.000 tracks) on my old computer (tragically slow...) I migrated my whole library to MediaMonkey. I felt like in heaven. What a much more flexible database that is, with LOTS of pleasant editing and grouping options.
But now, after a few years MediaMonkey the heaven became ****: it keeps messing up my library data, merges parts of tracks from different songs, attaches wrong art work to songs etc. etc.
Conclusion: iTunes is much more rigid and edit-unfriendly, but also more reliable and stable. And the newer version works faster with big libraries.
So today I took the final step to start going back to iTunes, version 11.0.1.12 now.
I experience the following problems:
1. Around 8.000 of my MediaMonkey (MM) tracks have not been imported. Why not?
2. Most of the MM comments do not appear in the IT comment fields. Why not? Where are they? Why can some be imported, others not? Can I redo it, maybe with the help of MP3Tag, that I came across in the past?
3. A few hundred (maybe more) tracks have a ! on the left of the title, meaning that the corresponding file can not be found. Why not? If I try to locate it manually it is always there (with the 10 tracks I 'relocated' so far). So why can't IT find them?
4.As I remember IT had a song/track list view with a separate sqaure window in the left hand bottom corner of the cover art of the playing song . But I cannot find how I can get that back. Now I only see a thumbnail in the top player, on the left of the playing title. Or is my memory wrong, did only MM have such 'cover art window'? If IT has such window as well, how to re-create it?
5. Does iTunes STILL have no proper option to store 'multiple artists or genres' in one field? In MM I could store a certain duet as 'Celine Dion, Andrea Bocelli' - using the comma as a separator between two individual artists. Same as with genres: 'classical, instrumental, romantic'. But in spite of popular requests IT still seems to 'merge' such combinations as one artist (called 'Celine Dion, Andrea Bocelli') etc. Am I correct? Any hope for improvement at this point?
6. Is there a way to view the number of tracks in the total library? Or the number of selected items?
7. Any hopes that multi-track-editing will be made possible soon? So that I do not have to add 'The Messiah' in the front of each individual track title of that work?
8. Do iTunes developers publish anywhere there plans for future enhancements? So that customers can see what is in the pipeline?
Thanks for help!
Greetings,
Wim

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