ITunes 7, I think it's changing the genres of my songs when it looks up art

I've only noticed this, as I actually leave the "Genre" field blank. As far as I'm concerned, there's only two types of music, .....good or bad.
So I've set iTunes churning through my collection, hunting for album artwork, & I notice that a lot of my tunes are now "Classic Rock" or "R&B" or "other". Now I know I haven't filled in these genre's, as I don't use the genre field.
This isn't a big problem for me, as I can just select all affected tracks & delete any text in the genre field. But I can see this being a major issue, for people who have spent a lot of time labelling up their music collection exactly how they want it. Only for all their hard work to be changed to the genres that apple thinks your music ought to have.
While I've been typing this, I've just set iTunes going on "get album artwork". Prior to this absolutely nothing had genres filled in. .....I've now got 150 tracks with genres!!
1.67 gb powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hey,
My friend had a very similar issue to yours. The issue came down to the pins of the MagSafe not meeting with the MacBook perfectly causing the lights and the transfer of power to be wacko. I'm not sure if this is issue that your experiencing, but its worth checking out the pins and the MagSafe area on your MacBook for debris.
Troubleshooting Magsafe power adapters with stuck pins
If that is all clear, then I would suggest you call AppleCare or take it in to an Apple Store to have it checked out.
Tom

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Again, why does Apple seem to think it can do whatever it wants to our bought and paid for music without our permission? This isn't about interface changes or whatever, which are all well within their rights, but to actually alter our files themselves without asking or even notifying us. They've got to be kidding... Isn't there some way to turn this off?
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I feel like I had some great music software and a great music player. I've used them for hours every day for years. I really love smart playlists and a whole bunch of features. It's very upsetting to see them go in this direction.
You know, record companies and music sellers have been pushing the idea of legally purchased files for years, saying it's just the same as CDs or whatever. And I've been dutifully buying my files this whole time from various legal sellers instead of pirating them. And now they're basically doing the equivalent of breaking into my home and messing around with my CDs- scrobbling all over the covers and album booklets, etc..
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