ITunes Randomly Renaming Songs

Ever since purchasing an Apple TV, my iTunes randomly renames a handful of songs by putting the track number in the song name. There doesn't seem to be a pattern to how it chooses which songs to alter... sometimes it will alter an album that I just listened to, or it will alter an album that hasn't been touched for months (eg. Christmas music).
Any thoughts?

iTunes prefs -> Advanced - Importing.
Uncheck *Create filenames with track number*.

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