Finished correcting 40,000 song tags on my hard drive. uninstalled iTunes. reinstallediTunes. iTunes put every label back as it was before on iTunes as well as my hard drive. I'm ******. What did I do wrong?

Yeah! I spent 2 weeks cleaning up 40,000+ songs id3 Tags on my external hard drive. I removed duplicates, mis-labeled, mis-numbered songs. I uninstalled iTunes COMPLETELY.  I re-installed iTunes and reloaded my music.
iTunes loaded my music with every error I had removed and every error was magically back on my hard drive. Needless to say I'M REALLY ******.
So what rookie mistake did I make here.
Do I need to correct all these mistakes through iTunes rather than directly to the file on my hard drive?
How do I make it so that if I transfer my hard drive to another computer with iTunes I dont have to do it all again???

Uninstalling & reinstalling iTunes should leave your iTunes database unchanged. If your media files are properly tagged then they should remain so if imported into a "fresh" library, though they lose information that is only stored in the library database such as playlist membership, ratings, play counts, checked status etc.
.wav files don't carry a tag. If organized in sensible Artist & Album folders I have a script called TagFromFilename that will extract meaning from the file path, but that only works if you disable iTunes reorganizing options before you import, otherwise these are likely to end up in a heap in Unknown Artist\Unknown Album. If you have an older database file that you can restore it may be possible to locate these files with a script called FindTracks then have iTunes rearrange the paths again.
If you deduped from iTunes, but didn't clear the underlying files from the folders then reimporting the media folder would have imported the dupes.
In certain cases mp3 files can have multiple tags, only one of which iTunes updates, In some cases on reimport it may read the other unedited data.
Ideally you would backup the entire library routinely and especially before undertaking any radical change in case something goes wrong.
tt2

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