Song Info Changing Itself

I have had itunes for a while now, and I have not had this problem until recently. When I first imported all of my music to itunes a long time ago, I changed a lot of the song information, and had no problems with the information sticking. All of a sudden, when I play certain songs, the information for those songs is being changed (to what I guess it originally was). Why is this happening, and what can I do about it?
Thanks!
Windows XP Pro

hmmmmm.
it might be worth checking to see if your WMP is silently updating your tags in the background.
for more information on that possibility, see the last post in the following thread (by Otto42):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2094328&#2094328

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