FOUR letter song titles?!?"ZMMH?

Sorry to x-post on 2 discussions but it is a "using" question caused by an "installation and upgrade"
Since my iTunes 5 upgrade disaster and finally getting iTunes 4.9 back on my now functioning computer, I notice that some of the songs I managed to rescue from some sort of internal filing oblivion now have their titles replaced by FOUR capital letters (and also no longer are associated with albums). What the heck does this mean???
for example "ZMMH" "UYFR" . They aren't abbreviations as far as I can tell and I know that these songs used to appear with their proper titles.
I really don't want to plug an iPod into itunes for fear that it will rename the songs in the iPod as well. Is this a permanent destruction of my iTunes song titles or will this get miraculously fixed if iTunes 5 ever gets released in a functioning way?
Thanks for any info / help

I've got an iPod Shuffle. If I surf to it in Windows Explorer (where it shows up as USB storage device), I can see that my .mp3 files are renamed with 4 letter names, but the ID3 tags are still intact. I think the 4 letter name may be some kind naming convention used by the iPod's file system?
Don't know if this anything to do with your problem but it might be related.
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