ITunes randomly replaces movies and songs

Ok, this is the weirdest one yet.
iTunes just wrecked a bunch of my movies' metadata.
I recently downloaded the 1080p versions and deleted the 720p versions.
Everything worked fine, but two days later, some of the movies, all of which I bought on the iTunes store, have been assigned covers and metadata from random songs in my music database. In some cases, the names were changed as well.
The songs themselves have been moved into the movies folder, where they now each have their own folder and have "(HD)" added to their file name.
This makes me think that iTunes tries to access the 720p versions of the movies (even though I selected 1080p in the preferences), and just grabs the first file it can find.
In other news, iTunes has deleted some songs and replaced them with .png files it found on my hard drive.  All completely at random, from what I can tell.
Does anyone have any idea what I should do?

Another user on this forum identified a cause and solution to this problem. iTunes freezes when playing songs which have channels encoded in "joint stereo" format. If these songs are re-encoded in "stereo" format, they play instantly without any freezing issues. However, it seems tedious for users with large libraries to go through thousands of songs and re-encode them to address this problem.
iTunes updates are notorious for bugs, which is part of the reason why I am still at 8.0.2. I updated to 8.2.1 when it was released, but had to revert back when I encountered this same problem. Apple needs to address the many issues with iTunes 8.2.1. It's also delaying my purchase of an iPhone 3Gs because the 3.0 firmware is only compatible with iTunes 8.2 or higher.

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