ITunes modifies music file info on its own.

Yesterday I noticed some music files would not play. It wasn't as though iTunes could not locate the files because I would right click on the songs in the music library then "get info" and iTunes listed the correct location. Today I noticed that another album would not play. I tested them in winamp and they worked just fine. So, I investigated more and saw that over 1/5 of the songs in my music library of 5015 songs had a modified date in January. Mostly on January 10th (440 titles tampered with between 4:40pm and 6:56pm), 24th (131 titles between 8:09pm and 9:21pm), and 25th (838 titles between 12:27am and 9:09am). After discovering the issues with the first two albums I replaced the files iTunes was reading with backups made on an external drive and then they worked fine in iTunes. BUT what gives with the rest of the modified files? They'd still play but I'm concerned.
As I search for more problems I noticed that when I'd double click a song to play it, the title below it in the music library was modified in the "date modified" column. I checked for an iTunes update and there was one. Were there problems with a recent version of iTunes? I believe I updated from 6.05 something. After installing the version available at apple.com today I have been trying to duplicate the issue (not really hoping to find it again) and haven't. Any bugs you know of?
Message was edited by: Sethmon

I hate to disagree but it happens to me and Safari was NOT in use.
I am wondering if it has something to do with the GSM signal from the iPhone. I noticed I had the 3G off so I could hear the interference from the phone as it was happening and that seem to make iTunes go weird.
Does anyone else having this problem have an iPhone? I have the 3GS.

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