WHY can't I get iTunes to import cd's that I put on Windows Media Player?

I loaded about 100 cd's onto Windows Media Player prior to receiving my Nano. When I try to put them in my iTunes library, it gives me an error message about "protected WMA format" and iTunes only being able to convert unprotected WMA song AND advising me to use the cd. What?? I cannot re-load every cd -- that took hours and hours in the first place! HELP!

Unfortunately it sounds as though you ripped your CDs in WMA format with the copy protect box checked.
This means that your WMA files are copy protected and there is no way out of this in WMP except to re-rip your CDs.
Since you own the CDs, it may be possibe to find third party software that can help you to remove the copy protection with Google, but I can't help you with that.

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