Problem: syncing my iPod changes song sorting info

Most times when I plug in my 5th gen 30 GB "Classic" iPod and sync with iTunes, the "sync" action will change the "sorting" ID tags on some of my existing songs and will change the way my songs appear in iTunes. For example, the text inside the "Sort Album" field may change to the text that is associated with the purchased music (i.e. The Who Sell Out will change to The Who Sell Out (Remastered)).
Also when I sync the music, the way my music appears to be categorized in iTunes and on the iPod may change (i.e. a song's genre will appear as Rock instead of Alternative) but the change isn't reflected in the song's information. In fact, when I open the Get Info window, it'll show me the unchanged genre, album name, etc., and when I click OK, it changes the categorization in the iTunes back to normal. At this point I would need to re-sync the iPod to get the correct categorization back on the iPod.
This all may sound a bit confusing, but in fact it is a but frustrating. I have to spend time every often going back through my music to re-classify it the way I want it. The songs that often do this (but not always) were purchased through the iTunes Store.
Has anyone else experienced this? Are there any Preferences or other things I can change in iTunes to stop this?

I've a similar issue that appears after I change the genre from Rock to Heavy Metal for example.
When I purchase a album on iTunes I always have to change the genre as the default one is not correct. iTunes on my Macbook accepts this genre change but my iPad/iPhone do not. When I try to sync the songs after the genre update they just simply do not sync. I see on my iPhone the songs greyed out with the circle in front indicating that these have still to be synced but they never do.
This seems to have something to do with the iTunes connection on my iPhone checking the iTunes content and meta data and the data that is provided from my iTunes library which obvious does not match the genre anymore.
SOLUTION for this is to:
backup my iPhone/iPad to my Macbook
Restore the iPhone/iPad with a fresh iOS installation
Restore the backup I made in step 1
Somehow the connection is than broken and you are able to sync the songs with their updated genre information.
This should be an easy taks as Apple should know that the genres they provide in the first place are very generic (for obviouse reasons though) and users would most likely change those for more detailed subgenres.
Needless to say that this is a major workaround and a pain in the a** as you need to do this every time when you buy a song that you change the meta data from.

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