i've notices recently that some songs in my itunes library are rated with white stars. this seems to have been done automatically, so to say, since i didn't rate them. I've seen these, too. In my case, it converted some of my single stars to single white stars. This is annoying because I use 1-star to mean "I haven't heard it yet" and, of course, I want to clear it when I listen. It won't let me clear the white star (:-(. Craig