ITunes Keeps Changing My Song Info

Forgive me if this is an easy fix (of which I hope it is). On my father's laptop it seems like every Wednesday iTunes updates his song library which causes any information he changed to revert back to where it was originally. For example, he has bought individual songs from four separate Elton John albums but condenses them into one custom album that he created. He makes sure all the sorting options match that of his custom album information, but come Wednesday those songs are automatically modified to revert back to their previous settings.
Another example is that I gifted him The Tragically Hip's "Now for Plan A" album, but the bonus track edition. The default name of the album is "Now for Plan A (Bonus Track Edition)." He will customize the album to rid away the Bonus Track part and just leave the rest as is. He does this both for Album and Sort Album for all songs involved. Come Wednesday it will revert it back to the Bonus Track Edition.
Is there a setting I am missing to turn this off? I don't recall having similar issues on my personal iTunes account on a separate computer. He uses Windows, I use OSX.
Thanks for any help.

In iTunes go to Edit > Preferences > Store and turn off
Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases
Share details about your library with Apple
On any iOS device go to Settings > Music and turn off
Show All Music
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