I have read that riding under high voltage power lines can screw up the data but I have never seen the actual results.
Your computer could screw up the data when it downloads it. Just last night my wife complained to me that her laptop had a corupt file with those same odd zeros or O's, whatever they are, and it had an odd name and was obviously not made by her.
I would go thru every folder on your gps and remove every suspicious file.