ITunes playing songs as videos

Not sure if this is a problem with iTunes 10 or not.
Basically I went to listen to a song that was imported from a CD as opposed to downloaded and it started trying to play it as video?!
Now, the other day these songs were playing fine as music files, but now I've looked at it the songs appear to be .mp4 video files...
Slightly confused... Any ideas?

I'm having the exact same problem with all of my MP4 audio files. I can confirm that it's a problem with iTunes 10, since the problem did not exist in previous versions. iTunes 10 thinks all of my MP4 audio files are video files. It will play them, but it goes to a black video screen every time, as if it's trying to play a video stream that isn't there. I have not been able to find a way to stop this behavior in the preferences.
Please fix this problem as soon as possible, Apple.

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