ITunes automatically changing song information

when i scroll through the songs in iTunes, the comments will automatically fill with random numbers. Also, the track # disappears. for example:
Track 1 of 5 becomes
Track 1
after i scroll through. the 5 disappears.
A lot of my album art is also gone.
I have the latest iTunes by the way. HELP PLEASE

You are definitely not alone. This has been happening for at least 2 or 3 versions now. There are multiple threads about this but I haven't found one yet with a solution for the problem.
There have been lots of possible causes thrown around but none of them have worked for me. I've heard the following suggested so far:
Sound Check
ID3 Tag Version
Tag Editor used
It's really frustrating because I have over 11000 songs and never know which ones are going to be corrupted each day. I have almost 4500 songs with random numbers in the comments although it is interesting that not all of them have lost the artwork and track count. Another interesting thing is that once any song in an album has this happen, the rest of the songs have the problem.

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