Info for purchased items (e.g., genre, year) keeps reverting to what's assigned by iTunes store after I change it

Problem that seems to have cropped up recently...
For purchased items, the changes I make to track info keep reverting to what the iTunes store had initially assigned. For example, genre - I've created some of my own, or changed the assigned genre for some songs after downloading. These genres determine where songs show up in my various smart playlists. They also keep my similar music together. I've painstakingly changed genres on downloaded music, but when I look at my library in song view the next time I launch iTunes, they're all back to what they were when I downloaded them.
This also happens for all the other details: album, year, album artist, etc. It's driving me mad!
Please advise.
I want Devo under New Wave, dammit, not Pop. Why can't I change these and have them stay that way? Anyone else finding this?

Anyone else?  You obviously have not been looking at the past 24 hours posts.
2014 discussion about edited tags for Store purchases reverting to originals - https://discussions.apple.com/message/26077896
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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