ATF Problem in Main Title

[Stupifier]

I tried searching the forums for this but couldn't find anything. In my Advanced Title Formatting(ATF) I have the rating listed. A five star song will be displayed with "*****" in it and so on. If you look in the Winamp Main window, the scrolling title scrolls and you see the correct formatting just fine. Except the ATF block is separated by "***". Basically, as it scrolls....it separates the end of the ATF from the beginning of the ATF (when scrolling back around) with "***". Its using 3 *'s as the separator from the end to beginning of the ATF block. Sorry, if I'm repeating myself, I just wanted to be clear.

In short, I DO NOT WANT THIS. The 3 *'s leads to confusion as to what my song is rated. I do not know how to fix it, change it, whatever. Anyone help me out?

btw, this is my ATF in case you wanna see. I did not create this ATF....so if its a problem with my ATF, please tell me how to correct it as I don't really understand some of the stuff in it....only the result.
[%artist% - ]$if2(%title%,$filepart(%filename%))[ $repeat(* , %rating%)]