Boxes next to song name / artist

OK... this is getting really annoying... and I dont know what to do!
This is a screeny so people dont get confuzed (I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE CHECK BOXES)
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/272/boxes9jy.png
Its not like the boxes are an eye sore - its jsut when I tranfer them to my iPod, well GG i see 999 of each artist!
This seams to happen randomly - as i have had to remove all the songs from my library and re-add them, even after I had renamed the artist so there were no boxes - and they are back now...
No they are not spaces - when i click to see its information - I see everything normally - no weird characters or spaces...

does foobar 2000 add non-printing characters to the
ends of the info in the individual tag entries (or
something like that), Otto?
Not in the way you mean it, no. It's a bug in iTunes of some sort with regards to ID3v2.4. Nobody seems to be entirely certain of the exact problem, but it seems that iTunes is not properly supporting unsyncronization or the byte order marker in Unicode (UTF-16) tags. Or something along those lines anyway. It's just weird.
Doing a Get Info on the track seems to make the squares go away. It's damned odd, basically. Still, it's reproducable on some people's machines.
Not using ID3v2.4 helps. Stick with 2.3 in programs that give you the option.

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