Wrong Bit Rates showing on iTunes

I have music that I ripped some time ago, and iTunes insist to show wrong bit rate of 32kbps where it shold be 320kbps. Note that this is NOT a problem with wrong import settings, since the quality of the songs is near CD quality and also the song tempo is showed much bigger than it really is, as a result of the wrong bit rate info. By the way, ripping again it's not an option.
I tryed to reconvert the songs inside iTunes using 320kpgs settings. The quality of the reconverted songs sounds unaltered; it showed the right info, and the new file it's a little bigger than the original. But, you know, I'm kind of a quality freak and I dont whant to take any chances here.
So here goes the question: is there some way, like an app, editor or something alike, that I could use to change the wrong bit rate info without touch or convert the audio data itself?
Thanks in advance
iMac G5 -2G RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

The CD ID on my desktop comes from iTunes, whether the CD was burned with that title or if I personally assigned it. When I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard the problem disappeared so I guess it was some database/file corruption. Thanks everyone for helping!
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