My iTunes library seems messed up - any ideas?

Recently I have noticed some strange things in my ITunes library, here are a couple examples:
* One of my audio tracks suddenly appears in the podcast section. The media type has been changed to "podcast" as well. It is also physically located in the podcast directory.
* Sometimes a song suddenly appears twice in my library. They link to the same physical file though. Sometimes this happens to only one song of an album, sometimes to a bunch of songs of the same album.
* Sometimes the meta-tags of a single track seem to be mixed up with those of a different track. A song by <Artist X> suddenly has the name of one of my podcasts in the "Grouping" field. An audio book suddenly shows the cover of one of my albums.
The list goes on but I think you get the picture. All of these tracks have been fine before. I can fix these errors but new ones spring up constantly.
Is there something wrong with my library? Does this have anything to do with the fact that I store all my media on an external NAS? Does my Apple TV cause these problems? Or my iPhone?

I'm experiencing the same issue. Not only do I get a messed up library, but since I've let iTunes handle my music files, they too have been shuffled around - placed in different album folders and sometimes given names of other songs... With quite a large library, the cleanup makes me feel a bit like Sisyfos pushing the rock uphill - it's a never ending story. Only positive side of this is that I get to play a lot of music quizzes while guessing who plays the song that is disguised as eg. Buddy from De La Soul, and then afterwards try to track down the real 'Buddy' as this has also found another folder to hide in...
Shazam has come to the rescue a few times so far...
@Apple: this is just not good enough!

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