ITunes Bug/Malicious Software or Corruption?

On my wife's MacBook, iTunes is showing that her entire ~800 song library has been played through in the last 10 days (according to Last Played Date), which is nowhere near the case (she listens to only a handful of songs in a day). It shows songs playing for stretches of time during which she was asleep or in class (for anywhere from a few songs to a few days), and in which we are completely certain she was not listening to music (or at the very least, not for that duration).
Aside from the weirdness factor, this is very annoying since I have her set up using smart playlists that are based on the Last Played field, which are now completely hosed. I'm a fairly experienced computer (and Mac) user, and am completely stumped.
Other pertinent information: She is using a 1G iPhone, which is the only device synced to her iTunes library. Our iTunes libraries are shared with each other, but I am seldom connected to hers, and always disconnect when I'm done. We have Two AppleTVs, neither of which is connected to her iTunes library for syncing or streaming. She doesn't have any iTunes plugins, and has no iTunes AppleScripts.
Thanks for any help you can offer.

it's clear that this must be a problem with iTunes or a virus
Actually, it's neither.
You burned an audio CD.
Audio CDs do not have any info on them.
iTunes looks up the info for audio CDs from Gracenote.
Gracenote gets the info from users who submit CD track names.
The CD is identified by Gracenote by the number of songs and the length of those songs, so it is possible to have the same CD identified as number of different titles.
Insert the CD on the computer it was burned with.
Open iTunes, select the CD then menu Advanced -> Submit CD trck names.
This will send the info to Gracenote.
When you insert it into another comnputer, go to menu Advanced -> Get CD track names and it should get the info you sent.

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