A Playlist based on last played date gets reset randomly

The playlist I use most of the time is one that shows music that hasn't been played in the past 120 days. Lately, at random intervals, the playlist gets reset as if iTunes has forgotten what I played the past day or so. So some songs are having their last played date set back to an earlier time (or maybe a random earlier time, I can't be sure). It looks to me like it's not just what has been played the past day or so that is being affected, but songs that have been played earlier, but not all of them.
I've tried restoring the iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml files from a backup of the previous evening, and when I open iTunes things look OK, but within a minute after starting up the playlist will get reset again. Any thoughts on why this might be happening and how I can hopefully fix things so it won't happen? Thanks very much for any ideas anybody can offer.

Hi,
Thanks for you replay and documentation, but it doesn't give me excatly the functionality I'm after. The only MTD calculation code the document provides is the calculation of the following functionality:
"Month to Date (MTD) u2013 From the 1st of month to u201CKey Dateu201D - for current year." This doesn't give the the functionality I want, which is to retrieve a given vaule for a Key Figure for the last dates of the months in a year to calculate MTD and YTD.
This way I have created the query is to have multiple hidden Key Figures that calculates the MTD and YTD.
In Columns in Query Designer it will look something like this:
Selection: MTD January--> Date = 31.01.2008, Key Figure (Always Show)
Selection: YTD January --> Date= 31.01.2008, Key Figure (Always Show)
Selection: MTD February --> Date= 29.02.2008, Key Figure (Always Hide)
Formula: MTD February --> MTD February - MTD January (Always Show)
Selection YTD February --> Date = 29.02.2008, Key Figure (Always Show)
And so on....
This is off course a simplified version, but it shows the core of the solution. What I want to achive here is that the dates used to get the Key Figures (last date of a month) is calculated as flexible as possible, so that the users can go back and forth in time without worrying about the leap year problem and so on. I have now used an offset from the last date of last year and this is good for all the normal years, but when it is a leap year the query will use wrong dates to get the key figure vaule for the last date of each month.
Any ideas on how to achieve this without creating 12 different Customer Exit variables (one for each end date of each month)?
Thanks
Regards
Oddmar Lid

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