Working fix for CDDB lookups in iTunes for Windows

Since the release of iTunes for Windows, I haven’t been able to get it to connect to the CDDB to get track information for my CDs. Judging from the activity on Apple’s discussion boards, I’m not alone. Today I found a fix that works on the board, involving turning off the use of proxy servers and deleting a registry key (see linked post for details). I don’t think Apple did a lot of testing of these features with machines that sat behind corporate firewalls and proxy servers…