Date Modified in iTunes 8

I've recently been doing a lot of metadata maintenance in iTunes, and as such, have been using some smart playlists filtered by Date Modified and sorting my main list view by Date Modified, as well. I noticed, upon upgrading to iTunes 8, that the Date Modified field is no longer getting reliably updated like it had been. A lot of the time now, the date won't update until I select the track again in the list view, and then it jumps to the top of the list and disappears from the smart playlist.
In addition, last night I replaces the album art on three albums, each as a group. I then synced my iPhone, and now notice that today, after performing that sync, only some of those tracks have the new artwork, while the rest have the old. That takes this from minor annoyance to performance-hindering bug, when it affects the sync mechanism.

I'm not 100% sure but when the finder window was constantly on the focus of the folder that contained the file in question, that's when the date would take time to update. However, since changing my workflow slightly, I now have several finder tabs open and I've found it changes immediately; or at least, it's updated as my focus has moved to another tab and then back to the tab containing the folder. Need more observation to confirm this though.

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