ITunes messes up my tracks. Why?

The problem is that when I play a track, the track tag information reverts back to what it was when I first created the track, and any special characters, accents, or special letters from other languages are replaced with ?'s. Here's the full story.
I recently decided to upgrade the quality of my ~8000 tracks in iTunes. Because iTunes doesn't have a very good mp3 encoder, and I'm not willing to go to mp4, I used LAME to encode everything. My encoding settings were VBR, 192 kb/sec max. I named everything the same as currently in my library, but designated the artist field as 2_ARTIST. My library includes a lot of music from other languages, so there are accents and weird letters, but iTunes has never had a problem with them before.
When they first came into iTunes, all the track tags came through just as I had ripped them. I matched them up with the older versions in my library, manually copied over star ratings, comments, lyrics, etc, then deleted the original versions, making sure that the files found their way to the trash. After that, I renamed all the 2_ARTIST to just ARTIST, and iTunes appeared to make the changes properly. After a lot of work, my library looked perfect again! I recreated my playlists, and started listening. I noticed that whenever it would play one of the newer songs, it would change the artist field to be 2_ARTIST again, and any special characters were just replaced wth ?'s.
As you might imagine, this is very frustrating to watch the hundreds of hours I've spend reorganizing my music be undone song by song.
I'm run iTunes 11.1.4 (62) 64-bit on OSX 10.9.1. If anybody has seen this before, please let me know how to fix it! I'm happy to provide any other info needed. Thanks!

I think i have fixed it....
I used a prog called VBRFix and i think it fixed it, well the times are right anyway...
Here's the link if anyone else gets the same prob as me in the future...
http://www.willwap.co.uk/Programs/vbrfix.php

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