Rating a song when the album already has a rating (BUG)

I think this is a bug; I haven't noticed it before iTunes 9/iPhone OS 3.1:
If I have an music ALBUM rated in iTunes (but not a SONG rating), when playing an individual SONG on the iPhone, it shows the ALBUM rating as if it was for the SONG itself. This is confusing, since I'm trying to catch up on my song ratings (but I can't tell if I have rated it, or not).
But (here is the bug), if I apply a rating to the individual SONG (from the iPhone), it will save and sync that rating back to iTunes, UNLESS the SONG rating is the same as the rating I gave to the ALBUM. In this case, the song rating isn't saved/synced. After syncing my iPhone back to iTunes, the SONG rating stays as a "hollow" star.
Has anyone seen this? Can anyone understand what I wrote?
Is there a fix? (besides un-rating my albums; actually, I don't think albums can be un-rated).

Drag the artwork from the artwork window to the desktop. Then, select the song without artwork and drag the artwork to the blank artwork window.

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