Why won't iTunes play some songs?

I have an album that iTunes, and only iTunes, refuses to play. There are 11 songs and 9 of them are unnable to be imported to or played with iTunes.
-The files still work as they can successfully be opened with Quicktime and Windows Media Player.
-All the files are the same type as all of the other songs I have that will play, and appear to have no errors.
-My iTunes is up-to-date.
-These songs would play before, and are even on my iPod, but recently they
-The songs will not appear in my library at all. I DOT NOT have the problem where the "!" appears. All files are accounted for, the problem is that I cannot open them in iTunes.
simply will not be played through iTunes.
Is there a way to fix this?
BTW...I'm using Vista...

Dragon911X,
Do you have a question?
If so, you should start your own post and not jump on someone elses topic that is already answered and completely differnt than your question.
my music skipped to another song
Make sure all songs have a checkmark in front of the song name.

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