Unable to tag songs transferred from iMac to iMac

Hi all, I converted my Mac-hating roommate to the Light Side, and she just got a 20" Core 2 Duo iMac. The problem we're running into is she copied a bunch of her files over from my 20" Core Duo (we rebooted my iMac into Target Disk Mode), and she's unable to re-name or tag some of the music we copied over in her iTunes. Get info in the Finder on the files in question says that Read & Write permission is given, and none of them were iTunes purchases either. Is there something we're missing?

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