Changing Movie Genre Corrupts File?

I believe I just discovered a pretty mean bug. I was trying to organize the videos in my iTunes "movies" section, including some home videos. I wanted to add a "genre" to my home videos, so I went to "get info" and manually added the genre "Home Videos." After that, the thumbnail picture disappeared from the videos, and a few minutes later they were unplayable. I replaced them with fresh copies (thank God I'd backed them up), repeated the process, and it happened again. Does it make sense for this to be linked to the "genre" change, or do I have a virus, or is my iTunes just fubar?

1. iTunes > Preferences > Advanced > Keep iTunes Media folder organized and Copy files to iTumes Media folder when adding to library [ CHECK ]
2. Do a iTunes menu File > Library > Organize Library... > Consolidate files
and then try again.

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