Apple has since SHORTENED music tracks by 75% content?!

Hey Apple,
The album "House This? Tastefully composed by KneeDeep" has at least one track cut short from 7 minutes to just 2:30 mins:seconds. It is "Crash (Lovebirds Remix)" track #12.
I bought this track two years ago and it is in my iPod and it is about 7 mins long. Now on iTunes it is 2 mins 30 seconds.
Can you fix this so that I can download it to my iPhone? I cannot resolve the iTunes library since I lost the original computer I used to have my iTunes library, but that's a different question.
Also the "I Got A Hold On You Soul" track (#3) is cut short to 2:30 from its 5+ min time.
Is this cutting artists music deliberate to save storage space? Do you choose the tracks at random or by number of downloads?
Or is this "an honest mistake"? Both tracks appear to have been cut to the same length of 2 mins 30 seconds.

Okay, I compared the track listing of this album on iTunes to a well-known music distribution service and it seems that there is storage corruption.
Crash (Lovebirds Remix) by Milton Jackson is track 11 and its length is 7:42.
Track #3 is The Night by Lovebirds, which appears as track #4 in iTunes.
Don't know where iTunes listed track #3 "I got a hold on your soul" came from.
The sad part is that "Crash (Lovebirds Remix)" is one of the coolest tracks in House.
If Apple is roaming these listsing (accidentally or whatever) could you please fix this?
(I know you're preparing for iPhone 5..., but perhaps you could find a little time?)
P.S. Interestingly enough, the back cover of the album shows the iTunes listing, but it still doesn't answer why Crash (Lovebirds Remix) by Milton Jackson is 2:30 instead of 7:42.
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