Songs, albums etc blank when importing!

You've gotta love iTunes..
The last couple of days iTunes refuses to add songs/albume/artist etc name when importing music. Sometimes buying music at work, bring it home to load it into my iTunes here. I am doing nothing to the album, just burning it as it is. When I get home I put the cd in and iTunes finds it through Gracenote and everything looks to be in order. But upon importing all info about every single track is gone. All I get is # 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc and so forth.
This is starting to make me angry. Any solutions out there?
PS; tried importing both as mp3 and with "apple lossless"
PS2; tried importing three times now, and track # 1 and 2 is there, as they should, but the rest of the 30 tracks are just numbers.
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I'm brand new at this, but I think my problem is similar.iTunes only imports the titles of songs from a CD.When I sync with my iPod,that's all I get.(The titles.)That goes through a CD fast! =:O

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