Odd Time Lengths Displayed In iTunes 9?

Curious question: I recently got a new laptop (details displayed at the bottom) and I downloaded the latest version of iTunes (9.1.1). When I go to add songs and then later on, I edit the silence out of them, the total time of the song is displayed as the original length instead of the fixed length.
Example: I get a song that's 4:16. I take the silence out at the end with Adobe Audition 3.0 and get the song to be 4:11. However, the song's still shown as 4:16 on iTunes but plays correctly 'til 4:11. Plus, it makes that length show like that on my iPod too (iPod Classic). What's up with this?
As the length was getting me annoyed, I tried something different: Editing the silence out and THEN adding the songs to iTunes. It begins to show the correct total time length but sometimes, randomly, I won't even do anything to the song and it'll show a different time length (like it really added seconds onto it or something). For example, I got this song (original length was about 4:34), cut the silence out to 4:33, added it and it would show 4:33 on my iTunes and iPod. Then, outta nowhere, I go to look at it yesterday and it's showing 4:39. Huh, 4:39? Where'd the extra time come from? Yeah, it would play the regular 4:33 but if I wanted to burn a CD and so on, why do I have to be confused with the lengths?
I also remember the other day, I had a lil' something I made of only 5 seconds and when I went to put artwork on it, the time shown went up to 25 seconds. I didn't know what to do so I took the song off my library, re-added it, re-added the artwork and it was the regular, fixed 5 seconds. Still, I don't know why it would even think of jumping to 25 seconds anyway...
What should I do? I don't think I can transfer my library to an older iTunes ('cause I tried that with my 2008 desktop computer and it didn't let me 'cause the iTunes was older). I have a very organized library of all the music and date added stats since I first got iTunes back on June 23, 2004 and I don't want it erased or anything.

Actually, I'm not havin' a problem at all playin' 'em back; it's just how they look. I just checked Windows Media Player and yup, they're displaying the lengths fine. Even when I just check the file info in the folder, it says the correct length without even opening any programs. It might be an iTunes problem.
And, the reason why I'm editing the files is because:
1. I like to have them converted to 112 kbps (that's my choice 'cause it's smaller on my iPod but still sounds great).
2. If their volumes are low at times, I like to fix them. Sometimes, the actual artists themselves send me songs and then, I would have to increase the volumes to where it sounds equally the same as other songs.
3. I don't like to have silence. It's like, I have to wait for an additional 5, 6 seconds 'til the next song. I like things to sound consistent.
4. With the lengths, I like to play a "guessing game" with myself. Like, when I'm doing my Top 500 Most Played songs on my iPod of the year, I try to guess by last played, times played, genre and time length. Time length is the most important. If the time's screwed up, then it won't be able to register in my head that good...
Overall, I think it's an iTunes problem.

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