ITunes is adding random music to the end of mp3s

Hi there... any help would be greatly appreciated...
recently I have noticed some very strange behaviour from iTunes....
on some tracks (randomly, some ripped from CD, some bought from Napster a while back, some 320kbps, some 256kbps), iTunes replaces the last few seconds of a song with a random few seconds of a random track from my library.
I had this happen with a CD... so I reripped it and it was fine. But it just happened with tracks I bought from Napster. I had to edit the ends of the tracks to avoid the gap that Napster annoying always put in there, so I know that the end of each track was good, present and correct. Now I import the track into iTunes, and the end is a few seconds of a Bob Dylan song!
And now the actual file has been affected... when I listen to the track in Finder, it has the same random Bob Dylan at the end!
Please, this is driving me crazy... if anyone can help - I'd love it... and if anyone could convince the folks at Apple to stop screwing with a program when it's stable, that would also be great too! :-)
(Never used to have this problem with iTunes)
Many thanks.

It seems to be. Here are the import settings:
I've also unchecked the "Rename Files" box - the outcome is the same.

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