Changed Creation Date

The creation date on all my photos in 6 catalogs has changed to 01-05-11. This includes photos that were taken in the past few months. I don't know when the change happened. Any clues as to what is going on?

Beat,
When I posted the question I thought it was only the dates in the metadata - all of them. I just discoverd that all the file creation dates on my "Photography" hard drive now show as 01-05-11. This drive holds 8 LR catalogs and a wide assortment of other files related to my photo work. It is starting to look like a non-LR issue. I'm checking now to see if the change occured near the time I did a recent LR update.
Thanks for looking. I'll post more info after I have done some more digging.
Ed

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