Empty Star Ratings on Songs, why?!

I've rated our over 25,000 song collection and my wife doesn't exaclty have the same musical taste as me, so I set up her own windows login on our pc and imported my library into itunes for her. I then reset all of the ratings to none so she could rate her songs her own way on her login and I could do the same on my login. Once I reset all of the song ratings rather than go blank next to each song they are now empty stars with the same rating I had given them. How can I get these to go away? At this point I think all I can do is make them all 1 stars and let her go from there but I'm curious if I can get around that. Thanks!

Oh, well i don't really understand the logic of rating songs in iTunes, just give em all 5/5... as long as you & your wife like those songs it will show up in yours/hers favorite my top 100/200 songs list...
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