I've been right-clicking songs like I used to, the option used to be "convert to AIFF" and it would put an AIFF file in the same folder. Now with iTunes 8 the option is "Create AIFF version" and I do it, the little orange animated icons go, then...no aiff file can be found in the folder, even when I do a search for the song name; only the original files come up.
eMac 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4,
Mac OS X (10.4.11),
1 GB DDR SDRAM; FCP 5.0.4; QT 7.4.1 (14)
hm, well it seems it may be another installment in the never-ending saga of bugs that ensues when you share a hard disk with your PC using AirPort...I can see AIFF files in that hard disk with my PC. Maybe after I restart my Mac the files will be available...