Popping, Cracking & Skipping on Harry Potter Audio CDs

Hey All!
I have heard this/my problem with files that weren't mine in the past, but now that it's happened to me, I need to find out what's going on.
I purchased the new/last Harry Potter book on CD. When I rip it, I find that the last 2 or 3 audio tracks/files contain popping, cracking or skipping in them, some very bad and hard to understand. I thought it was the CDs at first and took them back to the store for an exchange.
Once I had them home, it did it again. So on the tracks that I got popping on, I first went back to check the CD itself, some tracks sound perfect, so I would re-rip that individual file. Sometimes it'd work and other times it doesn't. Most times you can hear it on the CD and the MP3 file it made, other times you can only hear it on the CD.
Either way, I don't believe it's the CD. If I put the CD in our stereo, you don't hear any popping at all. Being it's always the last 2 or 3 files on each CD, I am thinking it's iTunes creating the issue. Maybe I need to try ripping it with another software to see, but the other programs I found were older OSX versions that either don't exist anymore or aren't supported (and they rip very very slowly).
Any thoughts or ideas from anyone...any suggestions what to try to use or any settings I should change?
Thanks,
Mike

Michael--I'm certainly no expert, but finding no answers to my problem which is almost exactly as you described, I tried this and so far so good. It may not be the best fix but it works for now.
All I did was to re-import the problem tracks as MP3 files and the popping and skipping were resolved.
I'd like to determine the cause of the problem and the best fix but with this, at least my immediate frustration has been relieved.
Best of luck!

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