ITunes Downloading Previously Downloaded Songs

I know that we're all well used to iTunes doing weird things in its attempts to totally take over our computers, but I've never know it do this before.
I recently switched to using Windows 7 from XP, and copied my library into my new iTunes. I synced my iPod ok and it's been fine.
However, last week, when I started iTunes, the iTunes Store downloaded a previously downloaded track then today when I switched it on, it downloaded an entire album that I've had for a good couple of years. When I looked at the album in my library after the download, I couldn't see anything had actually changed - the same number of tracks, the same play counts, genres, ratings etc.
I was watching as it downloaded - it had duplicates of my tracks, the ones it was in the process of downloading were "greyed out", then once it had finished downloading and processing the track, it deleted it, leaving me, at the end of this process with my original tracks with their stats untouched as previously mentioned.
Has anyone else had iTunes do this or is there some setting or other that I have or haven't got switched off or on?  I'm on version 11.1.5 of iTunes.

I've just found a folder in my Recycle Bin called "Original iTunes Purchases 1"

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