Itunes MP3 Tagging problems

I've been changing and rearranging my mp3 library ever since ipods and itunes exist and consider myself a itunes power user but this has never happened before, I had not changed album info ever since I have updated to the newest itunes version (10.2.2.14) and from Windows vista to Windows 7 so I do not know what caused the problem. So here it is, when I change info for an entire album some of the songs will not keep the info and will change back to what it was before, sometime its the genre or album or even artwork 9 songs out of 12 will show artwork in the Selected Item/Now Playing window on the bottom left but the other three will show nothing...and sometime it'll show an almost similar artwork the in a different shade (you can see it's not the same). this is making me nuts
any ideas
your help will be greatly appreciated

itunes rips CDs using v2.2 tags. I immediately change it to None, and then go back in and change them to v2.3
right-click > Convert ID3 tags
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Other programs, such as mp3tag, show ALL the tags.
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
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On the general tab, library tab, and privacy tab in WMP.
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