Changing genres adds the songs again?

A quick query.
I was ripping some CDs last night then dowloading to my ipod when I noticed that Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' had been categorised as Jazz [go figure...], anyway I went to track info and changed the genre to classical then reconnected my ipod.
I then noticed that the memory taken up on my ipod increased as though the ipod was downloading the album all over again rather than simply changing the track info. However, on looking through my ipod there wasn't actually two copies of the album.
I've actually changed the genre of a few albums and have noticed now a 0.3Gb disparity between my library on my HDD and what's on my ipod.
I've restored my ipod and am reloading my library which should get that back, but it seems odd that ipod should simply reload the album and not actually erase the old one.
Any thoughts/ideas?

Forget it! I noticed itunes actually does erase the old ones then re-adds them. I just thought it might update the tags rather than doing this.

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