Grey vs Black Rating Stars (in iTunes) [screenshot]

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MacBook Pro (early 2011)
Mac OS X 10.7.3
iTunes 10.5.3
Hello!
Here on the screenshot, you could see grey and black rating stars in iTunes. If I click on the grey star rating to give it a new or the same rating the stars become black.
So my questions are:
1. What do they mean?
2. How are they different?
3. What could be causing it?
4. Anything else I need to know about this?
Thanks,
Yervand

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2498439?start=0&tstart=0

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