ITunes movie genres reverting?

I have a growing collection of iTunes movies from both iTunes store purchases, as well as digital downloads bundled with discs.
Apple likes to categorize just about everythign into "Action & Adventure". I have changed the genre on some of the purchased movies to things like "Kids & Family", "Thriller" or "Sci-Fi & Fantasy".
Every once in a while, I will restart iTunes on my Mac Mini and notice that genres have reverted back to (probably) their defaults. When I look at the "Get Info" data for a reverted video, I notice that the genre I've changed it to (e.g. "Kids & Family") is correctly listed there, but the movie is grouped into the "Action & Adventure" genre within iTunes. Interestingly, I will change nothing in the Get Info dialog, click on OK and the movie magically appears in the genre category I "moved it to".
Music tracks do this, as well, but let's just focus on Movies; does anyone know of a work around to stop this annoying behavior from iTunes?
Thanks, in advance.

I'm sorry you are having the same issues, but feel vidicated that I am not alone with these challenges. I really like the Apple eco-system for media, and this is definitely a 1st-world problem, but is very annoying nonetheless.
On the music side, I went into my iTunes account "Purchases" link and set as Hidden all of my iTunes store music purchases. I just did this last night and we'll see if this helps with my music problems (which have been endless, since signing up for iTunes Match - which I disconnected from all of my devices awhile back).
I have a number of movie sound tracks that keep reverting to "Compilation" and changing genre; I went through these and correct them all, after hiding them in the store. We'll see. If this works, I may do the same with Movies.
TV shows have (mostly) worked really well because I rarely need to edit the meta data for these (exceptions being some recent episodes were missing the season number, which screws up how they sort in Apple TV). I fixed some of these last night (Ghost in the Shell: Arise) and we'll see if they stick.
I would be OK with hiding songs and movies, but TV shows are really nice in the cloud, since new episodes update frequently.

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June 6, 2006 (yes, that's 6/6/06)
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Those playlists are setup to only contain tracks with metadata that I changed but Apple subsequently corrupted
Corrupted tracks identified by those missing a special character "|" that I added to the "sort name"
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