ITunes filling in artist field in bizarre way

Hi all,
I've found that when I'm typing a track's info in the "Get Info" screen, it uses a really strange way of guessing what I'm typing.
For example, if I have a track whose artist name I want to change to Ottmar Liebert, as I start typing it will (of course) start filling in the box as I type. Here are the guesses I get before it finally settles on Ottmar Liebert:
O. Farrés/O. Farrés/Segura, G. García
Ottmar Leibert
Ottmar Liebart/Ottmar Liebart
I have no idea where these names are even coming from, but none of them are in the Artist tag for any of my songs. It makes absolutely no sense that iTunes would be picking all these random misspellings without motivation before (after I nearly type in the whole name) finally guessing that I'm typing something which hundreds of other songs in my library also have.
This seems like the exact opposite of the behavior that makes sense, so I figure maybe there's just something wrong with my library, or settings, or something. Does anyone have any idea? This is a minor thing, but it's kind of annoying and definitely very weird.

Hi,
Since I upgraded the Remote software to version 1.3.3 (4) it seems that when I'm browsing the music Library of my Apple TV, I can click on any artist and or album. So far so good, but after selecting, the tracktitle is shown on top of the screen, but the track is not loaded and cannot be played.
If I unplug my Apple TV then it works again, but after browsing and changing tracks 1 or 2 times, the bug occurs again.
Martijn I've read your the post and tried to delete the songs/artists that have the word 'Edit' in it, re-synchronized the apple TV with my iTunes Library, but no luck for me.

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Picture A:
In the shot above, I have highlighted the album "Mystical Experiences" and have the Multiple Items view of the album (notice it states Multiple Item Information at the top of the panel). Everything is correct and the artist name appears in the Artist box. But now look at the next screenshot:
Picture B:
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Picture C:
The Artist name appears three times in the Artists browser column, but they each appear to be identical. Now count the number of songs shown in picture B and picture C. (Don't worry, I'll do it - there are ten in picture B, but only nine in picture C.) Wow! What's going on? (By the way, iTunes will not let me select the third "version" of the Artist name. It's a rogue entry, caused by this test example.)
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Picture D:
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Picture E:
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Picture F:
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