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I have spent months and months organizing my iTunes library. I edit the track information exactly how I want it, but when I go back later to play a song, the info. that I edited is different from how I left it. The album artwork and track numbers get erased and other info. keeps changing. I noticed a series of numbers that show up in the comments section of each track. What's going on?

I believe this also happened in my library after I did a WMP upgrade, and the settings allowed getting album info from the internet. It wrecked about 500 tracks. I'm slowly editing them back to sanity, about 20 tracks per day. I use a smart playlist named wretched comments to find them easily.
Also - make sure your iTunes tags are ID3 v2.3. iTunes has problems with v2.2 and v2.4. My artwork didn't get hit like yours, but the comments field and track x of y did.
Also I am fairly certain that WMP did it, because it also filled in Composer and Album Artist fields.
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