Adding folders to libraries

Hi.
Help is required last posted reply to my Itunes question is not understandable,
I will try again, I have an external hard drive with all my music on it, artists are has named collections, for example; Earth,Wind & Fire Collection
and all the albums relating to that artist are in that collection.
my problem is that when importing or adding folder to library in Itunes Media, I select Earth, Wind & Fire has my chosen artist, I then select the Album that I wish to add to library, all goes well untill I add to library another Album from same artist, then Itunes creates a library and calls it
Earth, Wind and Fire then puts my second Album in that library, why is Itunes changing the name of the artist ? this is repeated untill I have at least three folders each with different named versions of the same artist, and each with Albums from the artist Earth,Wind & Fire and if there is a different reference in the Albums for example EWF yet another folder will be created and that particular Album will put in EWF folder, even-though the album will be in the Earth,Wind & Fire Collection.
In the last reply I recieved a sort ALBUM by ARTIST was a solution suggested, but try as I may I cannot work out how I can get my version of Itunes to display ALBUM by ARTIST the Itunes GUI looks slightly different to my version of Itunes which is ver 11.02.26 in this version I go to View then Column Browser
and all the sub-menu options are greyed out, which when I then go to Preferences there is nothing I can change that will make the greyed out sub-menu active.
What am I doing wrong?? please help it`s doing my head in.
Arthur

iTunes is primarily organized around albums. For iTunes an album is a collection of tracks with the same Album title and the same Album Artist or Artist (if Album Artist is blank). Different spellings of a band's name, or their album titles can cause repeat albums. For details see Grouping tracks into albums.
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