Problem importing Disney CDs

My daughter got a couple of new CDs at Christmas that are from Disney. These appear to have extra content, song lyrics, movie clips, etc on them. When I insert the CD iTunes takes a nose dive and I have to use a Force Quit to get anything working again.
Any suggestions on how I can get the songs imported into iTunes?
Cheers

Okay, it sounds as if they are what's called "enhanced CDs" (if, of course, one refer to something named Cheetah-licious as enhanced). An enhanced CD is one that has both the regular audio CD part as well as an additional track that contains regular "data" CD stuff. Does it appear in iTunes at all? If it does, make sure that you have iTunes set to do nothing upon insert a CD. Then, look at the track listing. It should be possible to tell which one is the data track. If I recall correctly, it's usually the first. Uncheck that and then you should be able to import the rest into iTunes and listen to it that way. To eject it, in the Finder, click on the data CD eject it, then eject through iTunes.
If I've missed something important about what you're trying do, sorry. Let me know and I'll try again.

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