ITunes 6.0 messing up ID3 tags and file names

Hey guys, i have just upgraded to iTunes 6.0. I have noticed that this new version is messing up my mp3 file names. When i start up iTunes, there would be files that have their Title, artist and other info either missing, reverted to the original mp3 file name or changed to something else. This is incredibly annoying and troublesome as i have a lot of mp3 files. Does anyone else have this problem?

Welcome to the world of Gracenotes. This is the database that Itunes reads to name your files. Apple pays a royalty to these clowns and this is what you get; misspellings and just plain wrong info.
I constantly sort and edit my 1300 CD collection so I would suggest you learn to do the same within iTunes. If the author names are reversed, fix one then copy. Itunes will let you select and change multiple fields once you learn to do multiple selection..not hard but tedious at times.
Apple needs to threaten to let us use the free CDDB for an alternate look up and a swap button on authors names, and so forth..

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    Welcome to the world of Gracenotes. This is the database that Itunes reads to name your files. Apple pays a royalty to these clowns and this is what you get; misspellings and just plain wrong info.
    I constantly sort and edit my 1300 CD collection so I would suggest you learn to do the same within iTunes. If the author names are reversed, fix one then copy. Itunes will let you select and change multiple fields once you learn to do multiple selection..not hard but tedious at times.
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