Apple Lossless as a Movie

Hi all,
I have recently bought an iPod 5G (not arrived yet), so I'm editing all my audio files, and I've noticed that Apple Lossless files (with .m4a file extension) are listed as Movie files. How to fix this problem? Will I have the same problem on my iPod?

If I understood right your question (I'm Italian), there's the info of the file from Windows Explorer:
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And this is the iTunes window:
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Those files were originally FLAC, but I read on the internet that iPod doesn't read this file extension so I have converted the files (with a software called "Super") to Apple Loseless (hopefully the quality will be almost the same)

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