Assigned genre disappears when playing track

I've been having a problem that I only noticed lately. On some songs (not all) when I double-click the track to play it, the assigned genre disappears. I'm able to "Get Info" and then re-assign the genre, but if I double-click the track to play it again, same thing happens... the genre disappears. Anyone else have this bug? Anyway to fix it? I have iTunes 9.0.2 on a MacBook Pro 17" with OS X 10.6.2.

I was having a similar problem... when I would double-click a track to play it, the genre would disappear. This would only happen with certain genres--ones that I'd added or had numbers in them (e.g. "70's, 80's - Pop").
After working on this a while I figured out I could solve the problem if I revealed the problem MP3 file in the Finder and then changed its ID3v2 tag (NOT the ID3v1 tag) to ID3v2.2.0 (it had been set at ID3v2.4.0). I also had to clear out the ID3 tag comments field (I think it appeared blank in iTunes, but in an ID3 tag editor it had hexadecimal digits in it).
The ID3 tag editor I used was "MP3 Rage" by Chaotic Software:
http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/MP3Rage.html
What a relief! I thought my iTunes library was corrupted somehow. It seems that iTunes doesn't like certain versions of the ID3 tag spec.
Scott

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