Tracks are renumbered...1, 2, 3 becomes 56, 57, 58, etc

Recently (after upgrading to iTunes 7.0.1...) I pulled up iTunes and saw that a huge number of tracks were renumbered. Not all in an album, but the first three or four would be renumbered 56, 57, 57, etc.
I have a huge number of tracks in iTunes (14,000+) so I'd prefer not to delete the whole library are redo the import over again.
Do I have any other choice? Is there a way to force renumbering on all tracks without deleting all the data?
Thanks
Pentium 4   Windows XP  

Here's the sum of my trials & tribulations... for the benefit of those who might run into this in the future.
As described above, my music tracks were getting renumbered willy-nilly. With a lot of direction from Colonel Panik off-line (thanks a million!), I came to the conclusion that another music manager was accessing my ID3 tags and renumbering tracks, then iTunes would hit that bad ID3 track data and rename my files.
Using an ID3 tag editor (the Godfather) I found out that the renumbered tracks had BOTH ID3 ver 1 AND ID3 ver 2 tags in them. So that other music manager (I suspect "Napster", which was bundled with my Roxio CD burning software) was writing old ver. 1 ID3 tags whenever it accessed the music files.
So... I'm still working through this as I post this message, but I had to:
1. Delete track numbers and Hex values in "Comments" (by sorting on comments field in iTunes and doing a mass edit).
2. Remove all the "bad" track listings from iTunes (Sort, group select, Delete... Keep Files).
3. Use MusicBrainz directly against my saved MP3 files to re-write the ID3 tags and rename the bad files. (What a great tool... looks at track "acoustic fingerprint" to match and then write ID3 tags)
4. Re-import the fixed up files into iTunes.
MusicBrainz takes a while to plug through a few thousand tracks, so, as I say, it's a work in progress. I've tested this with a few hundred tracks and it seems to be working out great (with more ID3 tag data than I had before!).
This is a major pain, but I'm anal about this stuff. I just cannot stand to have a track numbered "56" when I know it is 3rd or 4th on the original CD.
By the way, when I'm done, I'm considering making all my MP3s "read only" so in the future this never happens again. Any thoughts on doing that? Reasons not to?
Pentium 4 Windows XP

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