MAJOR iTunes 7 Bug (messes your tracks up!)

OK I think I've found a really major bug here. I've been trying to manually paste in artwork, while the track is playing and then iTunes then overwrites the track repeating the 1st 7 seconds of the song twice!!!!!
I've just tested it on Whatshername by Green Day, and copied the file out to another location for I would have an original copy.
Original track details;
File size 6172kb
Runtime 3:39
iTunes altered version;
File size 6367kb
Runtime 3:46
I can then repeat this for any other track I try and paste artwork into.
HELP!!!!

Okay, we've investigated this issue further. Here's the situation:
We can clear artwork for MULTIPLE items when it is our OWN artwork that we manually imported. But when it's Apple's artwork that iTunes 7 automatically downloaded, it doesn't let you clear the artwork for multiple items all at once... you actually have to clear the artwork one song at a time.
This is a real pain, since iTunes doesn't always download the proper artwork!

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Hi Jim,
Yes, I edit music in iTunes using the "get info" function, and often make bulk changes. I have a large classical music library, and I use a naming system as follows:
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If I buy an album with both the Brahms and the Beethoven violin concerto (I think Hahn has such an album), then I split it into 2 albums in iTunes.   The 2 albums would have the same album art, but would have different album titles as described above.
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I prefer:
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Here are some interesting observations in discovering MAJOR Cover Art bugs in iTunes 7.x.x
1. Importing CDs
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Day 2: Looks like iTunes only "saved" some of this effort. Sure enough, certain complete albums and random tracks from other albums now show NO cover art! How frustrating!
* * * Here is what is MORE DISTURBING about this Cover Art bug! * * *
I resort to thinking about more workarounds, and here are the results:
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IT ACTUALLY AFFECTS THE AUDIO TRACK!!!!
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Thinking this might be a corrupt library database, I even deleted the database, started over, and while adding missing cover art, was able to reproduce the lyrics repeating on those tracks where the cover art was added (pasted) twice. You can HEAR and see the increased track duration in iTunes 7.x.x
MAJOR Cover Art bug!!! So you are not alone. And besides all the wasted hours trying to fix this, I say wait for iTunes 8.x
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