To get v2 tags to work, i went into the Compression Options -> ID3 Tag tab, then check Additionally write ID2V2 tags... blah blah... and change the padding to 15kb. I believe you also have to uncheck the Use ID3V1.1 option. Works fine for me! And as for the year... whenever you access CDDB it will blank the year our because the CDDB doesn't contain year information. So you can just add it after you do the lookup, and it will write it out fine.