iTunes not loading song

[Asus]

I have a few MP3 files that will not load into iTunes for some reason. They are of a local band and I got them from my brother. They play perfectly fine in Windows media player, winamp, power dvd and other players.

-I drag the files from a explorer window or go to "File->Add File to Library" in iTunes yet they don't come up in the library or "Recently Added" playlist.
-From time to time when I try to load them in iTunes it looks like the dialog box for moving songs comes up but disappears too quick to read. Seems to just abort loading.
-I've tried moving the files to a different drive, checking file permissions, renamed them, cleared the ID tag fields.
-FYI they are not protected songs.
-Since then I have tried ripping some MP3s from a CD and they loaded fine.

Does anyone have some ideas? I can play them fine in WMP so its just an annoyance for the moment but it would be cool if I knew what was going on so it didn't happen with other files.
Did a quick google search and came up with this which sounds similar to my issue. I know some of the guys in the band use Macs.

While searching google I came across this guy who has 200,000 songs. :O

 

[Asus]

Never mind. Re-encoding the song worked but I didn't want that. Noticed the new file didn't have any ID tag. Removing the ID tags on the original files and that worked. Not sure what was wrong or different with them though.

But that New York Sun writer with 1200GB of music...thats crazy.

 

[Barney Fife]

Man, and I thought I have a problem.....50GB :|