For any Unix users reading this thread - look at http://id3lib.sourceforge.net. It includes a barebones command-line utility that does both id3v1 and id3v2. That's the Unix philosophy - do one thing but do it well.

Here is what I'm using to create my mp3s:

1. CDDB_get - query the CD database
2. cdparanoia - rip a CD to .wav files
3. lame - encode .wav to .mp3
4. id3lib - put id3v1 and id3v2 tags

I have a perl script that does 1 and saves the results in a file. I go in and manually edit this file to correct all the spelling mistakes and enter the year. Then another perl script does 2, 3 and 4 and moves the mp3s into the artist/year-album/track-song.mp3 hierarchy. Yes, it took some effort to glue it all together but in the end it's fully automated (save for the spelling correction pass) and it does exactly what I want.

Borislav