Itunes Jumbling up Song Names and actual Files

Hi,
i've searched the forum google and everywhere and can't seem to find an answer.
recently my Itunes has been going a bit mad. I've selected a song say:
"Jamiroquai- Virtual Insanity" in the library but it will play a completly different song but keep the name as "Jamiroquai-Virtual Insanity", i know the tracks are named correctly so why would it do this? it only started recently just after i passed the 100,000+ track mark?
ive tried backing up the XML file, deleting the current data and restoring it and that didnt seem to help.. any more ideas?

I don't know what is going on and I have no experience of such a large library but a few suggestions.
Select a problem track but instead of playing it, select Get Info.
Check the tag data, is it OK?
Then check the file location on the summary tab is it pointing at right file?
If iTunes plays the wrong file, it suggests that the library is pointing at the wrong place.
If you suspect that the problem is due to your large library, you could make a smaller test library to see if the problem occurs there.
Close iTunes and drag iTunes library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml out of the iTunes folder to your desktop. (You can put them back later).
Now open iTunes and an empty library is created.
Try adding a few folders to see if the problem occurs. If not, try adding you whole iTunes music folder, does the problem occur?
To restore things, delete your test library files and copy the library files you dragged to your desktop back into the iTunes folder.

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