Hex numbers apppear in comments field, artwork disappears

Other people have posted a similar problem, but I haven't been able to resolve it. In iTunes 7.0.2.16, certain song files, when choosing get info or playing the song, suddenly have a bunch of hex numbers appear in the comments field. For example: 00000000 00000210 0000078C 0000000000720264 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000. The artwork associated with the song disappears, as does part of the track number info (for example, song 6 of 11 will become simply song 6). Under the Playback tab, I unchecked Sound Check. I ran AdAware and SpyWareBot. Problem persists.
Dell Dimension E510 Windows XP iTunes 7.0.2.16

Are my music files being corrupted somehow? I recently defragged the drive they are on, could that have caused problems? If anyone has any ideas on this, I'd be most appreciative. Clean install of iTunes? Quicktime? Both?

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