Track Info Constantly Changing

I go through all my song / album information in iTunes (Windows 7), right mouse click on the track and/or album and click the Edit Info that appears in the pop up menu.  I spend a lot of time going through to organize my track listing information so I can find the information in my iPod Classic.  After a couple days (sometimes a week or two, sometimes a day or two), all of this information that I edited is gone in iTunes.  It is reset to the original information from when I purchased the items and all of my customization is gone, requiring me to go back and do it all over again.
Why does this keep happening?  I saw on some web searches that it was Windows Media Player updating the track information, but I have everything turned off in Windows Media Player and have no library setup for Media Player to manage but yet, iTunes is still constantly changing.
What else could be doing this and how do I stop it?
Any help is appreciated

In iTunes go to Edit > Preferences > Store and turn off
Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases
Share details about your library with Apple
On any iOS device go to Settings > Music and turn off
Show All Music
Close and reopen iTunes and/or reset the device and you should see your version of the metadata for each track rather than the original store data.
tt2

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