Mysterious music in my Front Row

I'm not a huge Front Row user -- I pretty much just use it for DVD viewing. One day I explored a bit more and checked out the "Music" section, and found a bunch of music I didn't recognize, especially considering the titles were in Japanese, and I don't speak Japanese. Check it out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/endquote/2124583368/
I have no idea how that stuff got there. (I also have no idea how to take a screen shot of Front Row -- that's an iPhone pic.)
I have two Macs, a newish dual-core MacBook Pro, and an old Powerbook G4, which acts as a music server. I have an Airport Extreme providing network access to everything and two Airport Expresses for Airtunes use. The wireless network is using WPA password protection, and I just changed the passwords tonight. None of this music shows up in iTunes on either Mac. The only other devices on the network are an iPhone and a Wii.
What's going on here? Is there a security issue? Am I hallucinating? It's just so strange.

He he! I haven't actually seen a screen shot of that yet, but you're not the first to report this issue. Some people have resolved this issue by deleting the Front Row preferences. You can find the file in this path:
<Macintosh HD>/Users/<YourUsersShortName>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.frontrow.plist.
You'll need to log out and log back in after deleting the file. For some reason, your iTunes store preference has changed to the Japanese store.
-Doug

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