Unable to add certain songs to iTunes--strange glitch

(x-posted in ipod touch forums)
Hello.
I have an iPod touch 2g, 8gb on itunes 8, windows Vista 32-bit.
For some reason, certain songs will not add into the itunes library to be transferred onto the ipod.
For example, I have a few Jack Johnson songs. One will add, but the rest of them wont. These were all burned from the same CD at the same time, legally owned and all. Itunes will transfer one song, but not the other six. I try manually dragging into the library and it doesn't work, and manually dragging to the ipod touch does not seem to have any effect either.
It is not just Jack Johnson CDs that I am having a problem with, I have a Don McLean CD from the 90's, a few A Fine Frenzy CDs, The Academy Is... (one of their CDs) among others. It's far too diversified to just be one particular thing. I have tried un-installing and installing iTunes a couple times, and it doesn't seem to be a driver problem at all.
Is there some way to add songs that I'm not aware of, some reason that the songs are not being added, or even an alternative to itunes that would be able to add these missing songs to my iPod? The problem is pretty widespread--I on;y have a music library of 500 songs or so, and about 80 of them won't add.
Thanks for any help.

Not sure what you mean by "double-checking online," but if the tag cleanup did not help, and you don't have the original CDs, I would go to cjschriver3's suggestion. If you have something like Audacity, read the file in and export it back out as a nice new "clean" MP3.
(BTW, not sure where you got the idea that iTunes was "higher end." It has very nice and flexible features for syncing iPods, which is its main purpose in life, but as a player is really just consumer-grade, and not particularly reliable at that, as you have learned first hand.)

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