Ipod auto update. Changing info wrongly

Whenever I add a tune to my itunes library the next time I connect my ipod. It goes through my library randomly changing info for 10 - 20 tracks wrongly about Genre, Year, Album for several tracks, and adding the track number to the tiltle so that an exclamation mark appears in the library to say it cant find the tune (Which ihas now been renamed) I have used a professionl mp3 tagging program. The info being changed by the ipod makes no sense anyway as it is wrong. I really want my music sorted into Genre and Years so this is really frustrating me. Can anyone help? Please! IPOD20gb and latest itunes but old version did same

Sadly, iPod sync is all or nothing.
If you auto-manage, you auto-manage EVERYTHING.
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