That is why I came to this board. I'm relying on the expertise of this group. I've used MB the same way for years and years and it's my favorite MP3 player/tool. Everything worked perfectly for years and years. I didn't do anything differently over the past week. Suddenly, the play count function of the tool seemed to reset on me.
To put music in my playlist, I would drag and drop the music from a folder in Windows into MusicBee (with the new playlist screen open in MB). Then, MusicBee would then populate that information into a playlist. I never thought twice about it because it was working exactly how I expected. I would then only listen to this music from the specific playlist I created.
I guess I'll just move on. It appears I'm out of luck with trying to get to the root cause. I appreciate you trying to help me in this tread.