Renaming AAC files question

This will be rather long winded, hopefully I can explain my problem sufficintly~!
When I received my Nano I imported about 2500 existing MP3 files from one folder of my laptops' hard drive into the Itunes Library. The MP3s followed a file naming convention of artist-song title (i.e. "Beatles--Hey Jude"). Since doing this I have imported songs from aprox. 10-15 CDs into ITunes, plus purchased about 30 more songs from the ITunes Store. They were imported/bought as AAC files.
I just got an external hard drive, and I am backing up all my music files, from the original hard drive folder, not the library. Because I am anal about it, lol, I would rather put all my music files into one big folder on the external hard drive. However, since the imported/purchased songs are AAC, they do not file the naming conventions of the MP3s, and furthermore right now on the laptop they are all in their own seperate little folders in the ITunes libray folder, listed by artist, and then album. The file names do not contain the artist info, rather they are just the track number and song title. If I drag them from their own folders into the "one big music folder" on the external hard drive, they are not indexed correctly so that all of one artists' songs are together, etc.
I had a handy program called Tag & Rename in which you could put together the file info easily for the MP3s, but it does not work for Apple Lossless files. Simply selecting the file and choosing "rename" and renaming it that way does not seem to do the trick.
Any ideas on how I can re-name the imported/purchased AAC songs so that they follow the same naming system of the MP3s? Its not a vital problem but it has been bugging me~!
Thanks in advance~!
Bill & Melissa
Gateway Notebook Windows XP

Thanks very much Lee. I will give it a shot.
Regards,
Jim

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