Disable automatic album / song ratings

I dunno if anyone else is like me and has a humongous music library, and therefore relies on star ratings to manage and enjoy it, but anyway - the iTunes album rating feature comes so close to being awesome, but instead lies frustratingly unused.
I would love to be able to make a new Smart Playlist of just my 4 and 5 star albums ("My Top Albums"), thus reviving the album amidst the single mp3 movement!
The problem is that iTunes applies an automatic album rating based on average song ratings, and I can't figure out how to disable it. What this means is that if I "top rate" a single song on a lousy album, that whole album will automatically be added to the "My Top Albums" playlist, which I obviously don't want.
It also clutters up the song rating field by putting these "recommended" blank stars. It's very disappointing and frustrating!
Is anyone else as ****** as I am? Has anyone found a way to disable this or get around it?

I found a script created by Doug Adams that allows you to set the album rating to half star, which will then remove it from the Smart Playlist, so that's certainly a step in the right direction.
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts09.php?page=1#albumratingreset
In fact, it comes very close to being a complete workaround, except for the fact that it still clutters up the song ratings with a little "1/2". This could, of course, be a good thing, in that it quickly shows you which albums have been excluded from the "My Top Rated Albums" Smart Playlist. Now that I think about it, I kind of like that.
But now I have to manually go in and apply this script to all the things I DON'T want in My Top Rated Albums playlist. Then if Apple ever fixes this automatic rating issue, I'll have to go back in and run the script again to remove the half star junk. Hmm...
I wish Apple would give us the option to disable this feature!

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7) Right click iPOD Playlist 5 STAR and select Delete, this won't delete your tracks.
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