ITunes automatically re-downloading music already owned?

I tried a search on various combinations of the words in my question, with no luck.  So here goes, hope this is not a duplicate question.
I wanted to download some App updates in iTunes today and when I clicked on the Update All button, I noticed that suddenly iTunes was downloading 5 songs that I already owned - and have owned since 2006!  I let it finish, then verified, it did re-import 5 songs, so now I have 2 copies.  And some of the songs don't even show as being from the same album as my original copy, but a different album by that artist.
Has anyone else had this issue, and know if there is a resolution for it?  I am using iTunes 10.3.1
It never did download the apps either - I will have to try those again.
Vicki

When I updated with 10.3.1; the iCloud indicated that I had 100 songs purchased but not reflected on the PC. 100 ?? Wow !!.  I think most were purchases by my kids many years ago on their machines under my account. And there were some duplicates too. Very strange. I just downloaded and weeded out. Could show up again I guess under "purchased." Now remember this is still Beta, but 100 songs ?

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