ITunes Inaccurate Play Counts

Hey guys-
I've been having a lot of trouble syncing my music library to my new 128GB iPhone 6. One of the latest problems is that after syncing (normally unsuccessfully), my device syncs ridiculously high play counts to my iTunes library.
For example, I added a new song to my library on 10/09/14 and only played it once in my car. When I synced my iPhone this morning, the song had 28 plays. I know for a fact that this song only played once in total. About 30 songs have had their play counts dramatically inflated (25-60 plays).
I rely heavily on play counts for smart playlists and ratings. Now I have about 30 songs with play counts higher than some of my favorite songs which were added years ago. I assign ratings based on plays too so suddenly songs I added over the week were now 5 star songs with only 1-5 legitimate plays.
Any idea what is causing this?? It's threatening the integrity of my entire iTunes library.. Please help!!
MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
iTunes 11.4 (18) (64 bit)
iPhone 6, 128GB (iOS 8.0.2; 12A405)

I have the same problem like you. iMac with Yosemite and iPhone 6. A song, added 2 months ago has 205 counts. Other songs I have for years ago have only 80 counts. And there are other songs, where the same thing is happening. And its starts mixing up everything at my library -.-
Today I talked to Apple Care at the phone. He never heard of that problem. And talked with a colleague. Result: Nothing. He can not promise, that a future update either of Yosemite (e.g.10.10.1) or iTunes will solve the problem.
He talked about editing the itunes library.xml document. However, I have to do this on my own because Apple doesn't provide this solution. And if that helps: Nobody knows. Since I am not an expert, i can't do that.
Other options: A new library or reseting al counters.
All in all: No solution that helps.
I may start reseting some of the counters that are most crazy, and hope for an effective update. (Sorry for potential english mistakes )

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