Updating/changing track info

I ripped a couple gb's of music from my 160gb ipod classic and imported them into itunes but for some reason the artist info was out of whack. I tried changing the artist name info and it shows correctly in the overall view of my itunes library, but the artist column on the left lists the artist name 5 times and they aren't even grouped together placing 4 of them out of alphabetical order. if you click on each one it shows you the exact same tracks and i confirmed in finder that there aren't multiple copies in my library's music folder. the most annoying part is that the old messed up artist names that i changed are the ones still showing on my iphone. any idea on how to fix this?
i tried turning itunes match off in my iphone, swtiching off show all songs and turning it back on, resetting my iphone and doing both of those again and it hasn't worked.

Is the drive used with a Windows computer? If so that could be the problem. Macs cannot write to NTFS drives without special utilities.

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