ITunes appending genre in file rather than replacing

I'm going through the process of doing genre updates to mp3s via iTunes. I've noticed that in most cases (though for some reason not all) iTunes will append the new genre without replacing the old one. So for example, if I change a file from "Alternative & Punk" to "Punk", the genre is listed in the file as Alternative & Punk; Punk.
Any thoughts on how I can get a straight replace? Thanks in advance!

See the section on multiple tags... http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp#section6
At a guess Windows Explorer is probably combining the details from id3v1 & id3v2 tags whereas iTunes is only showing info. from one set.
tt2

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