Unplayable songs/ harddisk makes clicking-sounds

Some songs I downloaded from CD's are not playable anymore.
When I push the start-button my harddisk starts making clicking-sounds.
Is this a hardwareproblem?
On my backupdisk the unplayable songs can no longer be found.
700 MHZ PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 768 MB SDRAM/ 40 GB/ LaCie 240 GB

@ Webcrasher:
Are you sure about AIFF not being able to store info about artist, genre, etc.?
Just try it out yourself: 1) Delte a AIFF-file, 2) drag it out of the carbage can to the Desktop and 3) drop it to the library. You'll see the info is still there.
The same happens if you connect an external drive with your AIFF-files to somebody elses Mac. The AIFF-files pop up in the iTunes library with all the info you need.
Normally it works this way. If AIFF-files are corrupt, like some of mine are, you won't get the info if you import them again.

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