ITunes(10.6) or iTunes Match is renaming my songs

I updated to iTunes 10.6 yesterday everything was fine. This morning I noticed iTunes Match was turned off. Maybe from the update, no big, I signed back in. At least one of my song has been reverted back to UQLqfobz9Jpn.128. By chance I took a screen shot yesterday of the song and here it is again.
Notice iTunes got rid of any metadata that was not originally part of the song when imported(plays,rating,title).
My Questions:
1) Is there are way to revert the metadata back.
2) Some other songs are like this, any tips on finding them all?
3) Is the a tech support doc on this, I could only find info on HOW to rename a song.

You are experiencing a problem many others have reported. Basically, during the matching process, if there is a "clean" version of an "explicit" song, Apple is matching to the "clean" one. The explicit track is still on your computer unless you've removed it.
As for who would want a "clean" version of anything, only people who have purchased it could tell you why. Consider the legal implications, however, if someone who wanted "clean" versions suddenly found all their music had gone, well, nasty!
Apple's legal department may have forced engineering to put some measures in place to keep that from happening. If they did, they're working a little too well. Hopefully with time Apple will get it straightened out.

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