Changes to track info in iTunes sometimes doesn't "stick"

I have been slowly ripping my large CD collection into iTunes 10.7. Most of it is classical. This means that a great deal of clean-up has to be done, due to the sad state of the Gracenote database, which is riddled with inconsistencies and spelling errors. I have do a lot of editing, sometimes to make things I ripped a couple of years ago consistent with the way I'm listing things now. Within the past few days, I've corrected the same error several times: a misspelling of Beethoven's first name. I've looked for the misspelled variant in the four genres within which it could occur, have found it, and corrected it. And yet today it showed up again. This error is easy to correct, although I am not eager to do it repeatedly, but it makes me anxious about what other edits might not have been retained.
Is there a way to ensure that edits are truly saved?
How robust is iTunes’ library? Is there a size at which it no longer functions correctly?
This is an enormous amount of work and the thought of it possibly being lost due to some sort of corruption is a horrible one.

i had this problem a while ago.
In fact i had this problem about 5 seconds ago.
I was getting all these songs with Artist ft Artist 2 when i didn't need or want that.
After rebooting, resyncing, renaming ALOT of items etc... i gave up.
I then replugged it back into my iMac, made a new playlist on the ipod touch, then i closed the music app on the multi-task bar.
I then synced it from the main screen, and then after waiting for a while - the new playlist was there and all the artists were fixed... i have no idea what i did, but it's worth noting that since you can still play music on IOS5 while it is syncing, it's best to just turn off the music app.
BTW - I don't sync music from itunes library - i manually manage my music...

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