What do the grey dotted circles mean?

Hi, I'm trying to add some cds I imported into my iTunes onto my phone but it won't let me. When I plug my phone in to sync I click on this iPhone and the songs I want are highlighted with this grey dotted circle?

Very frustrating. Tried your suggestion but haven't had any luck. Dragged and dropped albums easily yesterday. Today, no such luck. They appear normally in iTunes on my system, with correct album artwork for all songs, but on iPhone 4 are grayed out with little dotted circle. Songs are checked. When I try to edit them ("get info"), the album artwork box is actually not visible. For an individual song, the album artwork tab is absent, and for multiple songs at a time, it just says "artwork" without a box present. All the text is grayed out and un-editable.
Any other suggestions? I truly am so ****** off about the changes in iTunes.

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