Renaming Songs

I've done a search on this topic and read a good deal of the posts about this topic and I haven't found an answer on my own, so I'm hoping someone can help me.
I've downloaded songs, both off the internet and from CD's and the names won't change. For example, I downloaded a song from the internet... When in the iTunes Music FILE FOLDER it will be the name of whatever song, say "Hey Jude" by the Beatles. So I then go to the iTunes program, go to FILE, then "Add file to library", and add that file. After that it will be in my library. I double-click on the song to play and it will play... BUT, the song title changes to "untitled". I stop the song and RIGHT CLICK on the song, then go to "Get Info". The information comes up and I go to the Info tab. In this tab, it shows me the title, artist, album names, etc... But in the title it says "untitled"...SO, I change it back to "Hey Jude" and click "OK". In my Library, the song is back to "Hey Jude" again... BUT, you know what happens when I click on the song to play? It plays, but the song title goes back to "untitled"... What the **** is wrong? It won't stick with the name I give it!
So, does anyone know what I should do?

I've gone through all the files that are being renamed, and all of them have the "read only" box UNchecked.
I did a search for discussions w/ the topic "Renaming Song" and others similar to that... One of the discussions talked about how WMP will "watch" the files being entered in to the library... And that it is WMP that is automatically changed the names back to the original. So, I opened up WMP, when to TOOLS, then OPTIONS, then to the LIBRARY tab. In that tab their is the subject of "Automatic Media Information Updates for Files". In that discussion I read one person said to UNcheck all those boxes to keep WMP from changing all your file names when you try playing them in iTunes. BUT... the thing is, when I went to WMP and went to the Library tab, none of those freakin' boxes were checked!
So, I thought if WMP has something in the program that automatically changes your file info, then maybe QuickTime has something like that too... I couldn't find anything in QuickTime like that, so I'm still lost on why iTunes is changing the names, and still lost on what to do about it.
Any suggestions?

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