Under 'Name' field, the name appears as the artist - name

It seems to happen after i go to add folder to add new songs. It just started happening recently. I could reinstall it but i dont want to loose all the rankings and times Ive played songs because thats how i have some of my playlists set up. So after i update the library by adding the new songs, alot of songs, but not all of them, will appear as the aritists name separated by a hyphen then followed by the actual song name. Then, when i double click on it to play it, it will revert back to the normal correct name (just the name)
Has anyone had this problem before?

I don't know exactly what causes this, but it sometimes happens on large imports.
A quick fix is that you can use this script to force iTunes to reread the tags on all the songs in your library: http://ottodestruct.com/iTunes/update.txt

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