Itunes uploading my personal music files.....??

has anyone caught itunes uploading their personal music files?? as i purchased and downloaded music from the australian itunes store they uploaded my music files......when i then went to burn my own music files in mp3 format, itunes identified "MY MP3 FILES" as itunes purchases and would not allow me to burn them off in mp3 format.....has anyone else encountered this problem and can i prevent this from happening again??
please note; i am using 2 firewalls...however i have to allow access to itunes store in order to download my purchases.

i should also mention mimico that these files were stored on my computer in mp3 format prior to me accessing itunes for the first time.it was after downloading my first purchase from itunes that i went to my music library to burn some mp3`s and realized my pre-existing files had been converted to m4p format whilst i downloaded my first purchase.it appeared to me that itunes had catalogued my library,compared it with what they had available and converted my previously stored mp3`s to m4p and claimed that i could not burn them to mp3 because they were 'prior itunes purchases and could not therefore be burnt in mp3 format.the issue here is not that they changed my files [i still have the original discs] but that they covertly entered my files whilst i purchased and downloaded and catalogued what i listen to, then, to make it worse they tampered with my files [i feel] in so much as they changed the file format to their store bought format........and hence denied me access to my own files in my perfered mp3 format

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