Itunes playing songs i didnt

i was looking at my recently played smart playlist and it said that i had played songs that i most certainly didnt. This was before i plugged my ipod in to get it updated. The first time this happened, it had played an album straight through, except the time displayed was three hours in the future. I checked my computer's time settings and everything, but there was no way i could have played this album at 10:40 when it was only 7:00 (it still had the same date as that day). This wouldnt really bother me except it's meesing up my play counts, and I'm really anal about my play counts. Also, it's just so weird and freaky in a twilight zone way how itunes says i played songs that i didnt. i browsed the boards, but no one else seems to have this problem. Anyone who knows how to fix it please help.
and i definitely have the latest version of itunes.

Yeah, I had some song a while back that said it played in the year 2038.
The ITL file was obviously messed up. I deleted that song and re-added it to the iTunes library.

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