ITunes updating track information?

Hey, I've had a problem for a while, not sure how long, but I have the most recent version of iTunes and it seems that every couple of months or so iTunes will automatically change track information on some of my songs. This is a real drag because for a lot of the albums it will remove the album covers and I'll have to embark upon a crusade on the internet to get them all back.
At first I thought the album art was the only thing it was touching but then I noticed it was also changing some of the album info....for example, on the American Beauty album I have by the Grateful Dead, it would keep the first half of the album as it was, American Beauty by Grateful Dead, but would change the second half to be American Beauty by The Grateful Dead. Also, for the Super Session album by Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, and Stephen Stills, it changed the Album Artist for all the tracks from "Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, and Stephen Stills" to "Kooper/Bloomfield/Stills." All of my music is legal, and from CD's, I don't have anything from the iTunes store. Is there a way to disable this auto-update feature, I've looked through the preferences and couldn't find anything. Thanks for any help.

Yeah, it also inserted the album title "The Mama's and the Papa's" for the only Mama's and the Papa's song I have, California Dreaming, even though I just had the album field blank.

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Upon doing this, everything worked fine... I dragged and dropped my MP3's straight onto iTunes and let it sit for a few hours.
Now I'm trying to go in and fill in some missing/incorrect information on my files (add track info, number of discs in album, etc.) and I find that I am not able to on my older MP3's.
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Select the Songs tab, then under iTunes Menu select View then click Show Column Browser. You will see the familiar GENRES ARTISTS ALBUMS header, click on one artist and you will have only the artist's albums and songs showing in the window below with all the specific info you selected under View options. If this is not what you wanted, simply reply with a nice "no thanks".
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