Track info changes reverting & wrong order. Soundcheck doesn't rescan.

Looks like I've had less serious probs with iTunes 7 than a lot of people, but there are a few irritating bugs:
1) On one album in my library, I keep changing the Album Artist, but it keeps changing itself back whenever the tracks are played. For some reason iTunes entered the Album Artist as "Soundtrack". I changed it to the real artist, and when each track is played it reverts back to "Soundtrack". I'm not even allowed to name my own library??
2) Tracks from the same album are sometimes displayed in the wrong order, eg track 6 will appear before track 1. If I play track 1, track 6 moves down between tracks 1 & 2. Play track 2 & track 6 moves down another place. All tracks names/numbers etc have the same convention & all labelled N of N tracks etc. It also seems to have split some of my albums into different album artists (I've only ever used Artist, not album Artist) so I've had a huge amount of restoration work to do on my library.
3) After upgrading, the Soundcheck tick disappeared from Preferences. When I re-check it, it doesn't re-scan anything, not even the tracks I added since the upgrade. Sound check doesn't even seem to be mentioned in the help file from what I can remember from when I tried this.
4) Also having the same probs as other people with jumpy video playback & high CPU usage.
5) New Cover view for Album covers is a nice touch, but no explanation on how it works (I understand it doesn't automatically add the artwork to the ID3 tags). Also, when I change to Browse by album cover, I just get a useless message saying that it's unable to browse by album cover on this computer. Help file is utterly useless & no solutions on internet. I suspect my DirectX/graphics card setup may be involved somewhere, but how come it's able to display album covers in the other two views?
General consensus seems to be that this software release is a real shocker & although there seems to be a lot of hysteria over it on these forums, I can't believe it was released in this state. Apple need to pull their fingers out.

Hi,
Many thanks for the suggestions - replies as follows:
1) I never have this option checked.
2) This is when sorted by album - it's definitely not connected with my view settings.
3) Cool - I was probably basing this on previous versions when I think think you could see Soundcheck running (if you couldn't I think you could scroll through the displays in the Now Playing window at the top). There was no apparent disk activity after checking either, but I haven't got arounud to checking file modified timestamps. Still don't understand why Soundcheck was disabled after upgrade though...
4) This didn't happen with previous versions of iTunes. Have already scoured the web for help & it sounds like a common problem with this release. I built this PC!
5) DirectX is already running on v9.0c, and I've got the latest drivers for my ATI Radeon 7500 128MB card. I thought it might be DirectX-related as I've been having problems getting Direct3D acceleration enabled. Haven't found any fixes yet relevant to this - have uninstalled all remote control software (including mirror drivers)& made a NetMeeting change which supposedly fixes this but no luck, reinstalled SP2, reinstalled drivers etc. Argh.
Thanks for your help!

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