Wrong sidecar (LR3 - LR4)

Hi,
I have 40k+ pictures in LR3. Last month I installed LR4 trial and I started using it. It created catalog xxx-2-2. I did some file renaming on several years and other adjustments on my latest pictures. I wasn't happy because it was too slow and I stopped using it.
Then I started using LR3 again with catalog xxx-2.
Most of my pictures are Nikon Raw (NEF).
In LR3, with no particular reason, some of my older pictures show wrong adjustments (sidecar). Most of the time it seems that the sidecar data has been moved one picture prior. So DSC_001.NEF has now the adjustments, cropping, rating, keywords, etc. for DSC_002.NEF; DSC_002.NEF has the adjustments, etc. for DSC_003.NEF and so on. It looks like the sidecar files have changed somehow the name one step behind.
In other cases it looks like the adjustments are just reaplied randomly. I have lots of pictures upsidedown, which is very unusual since all of my pictures should be straight or +/- 90degrees only.
And I also have pictures with the capture time changed (the pictures are mixed - I sort them by capture time). And that's really wird, since no process should be able to rewrite the capture time on several random pictures at a time.
There are several months in several years affected; not always all the pictures.
I removed the files from catalog for one full month and I imported them again. The problem is still there. So the issue really seems to be within the sidecar file.
So my only choice would be to delete all sidecars, and reapply adjustments, cropping, rating, keywording, etc. For thousands of pictures....
I reinstalled LR4 and some of the problems seem to dissapear. I didn't go one by one, but at a first glance I don't see upside down pictures anymore and wrong capture time. Except the ones I "fixed" in LR3...
So I understand that I have problems with LR3 where LR4 has written in the sidecars and there are compatibility issues. Please comment.
Now, how can I fix it all back, like it was before I first installed LR4?
What can I do to be able to use LR3 again?
Thank you.
Adrian

The answer that you just effectively delete the sidecar files and only use the catalogue is crazy.
And I think this statement is crazy. Lightroom's catalog does not read or make use of sidecar files, except when you specifically instruct LR to use them. There is at least one person who posts in this forum who never uses sidecar files with his RAWs, he doesn't want them. In my own Lightroom 5beta catalog, I haven't told Lightroom to create sidecar files, and yet everything works just fine.
What exactly are the sidecar files for then?
Communications with other applications, or communication with other Lightroom catalogs. They are not the place where LR stores its own information about the photos.
And the OP seemed to suggest that they didn't want to go through thousands of files and individually reapply all the adjustments.
Yes, the catalog file has all the information needed about the edits; your edits will be restored by restoring the catalog file. Sidecar files are not needed in this restoration of edits and metadata.
They also said that they had 2 separate catalogues, so does that answer the question about backups?
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