ITunes 11 has renamed my songs and albums without my permission!

In my itunes, years ago as i acrued single songs, i would edit the song information such as album name, so that each of these singles would appear in one album called "SINGLES." I do not want 10,000 albums in my itunes that all contain one song each. Now, in iTunes 11, iTunes has gone and automatically edited the "Get Info" on all my songs and re-sorted all of my singles back into their original albums. I do not want to have to go through all of my singles and edit the "get info" again. How can I get my singles back into a SINGLES album?
Thanks,
Lori

Pehaps a variation of the tool in this thread would allow you to recover the old metadata. What fields have been modified?
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