AHHH! Help with iTunes 8 Music Video sorting

I upgraded to the iTunes 8 today, and when I do the brand new search thingy with music, its all weird for just one artists
Ill go search by artist in my library, and when i for example click 'rihanna'
It shows all her music videos i have (which is like 5) under ONE album called "Unknown Album" where all my other artists music videos have seperate albums for each!
What it's doing that i hate!:
http://i36.tinypic.com/23hpuv8.jpg
What i want it too be like:
http://i36.tinypic.com/2nte6x1.png
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!

I hate this as well. There's no rhyme or reason as to when/why iTunes sometimes looks at the Album entry of the video's tag. For example, I have some videos with no album name listed in the Info-Album field and the video will show:
Song Name
Artist Name
(and will use a "poster frame", as QuickTime calls it, from the video itself)
But at other times, and the problem we're both frustrated at, when the Album info is blank iTunes will show:
Unknown Album
Artist Name
(and will use a poster frame from one of the many videos you may have by that artist. In your example pic, it looks like iTunes is using the poster frame for the "I Hate That I Love You" video by Rihanna...even though you have 5 different videos by her.)
The only fix I could find was to either:
1) enter the actual album name that the video is from (i.e. Good Girl Gone Bad) into the Info-Album field. Then, if you have a song file from the same artist/album (with the associated album artwork for that song) iTunes will use the album art for Cover Flow but will display the poster frame for the selection window in the lower left corner of iTunes.
2) enter the song's name with a period at the end (i.e. "I Hate That I Love You.") into the Info-album field. You'll see that the "Unknown Album" will disappear and will now show as such:
Song Name.
Artist Name
(will use the poster frame from the video for both Cover Flow and the selection window in the lower left)
You don't have to enter the song name with a period at the end, that's just the method I used. Realize though, iTunes will list whatever name you use for the album field of the video into the Album list of your iTunes/iPod library. (i.e. - you'd then have an album named I Hate That I Love You. showing under Albums).
I hope the advice wasn't too confusing. I wish iTunes wouldn't force you to enter an Album name for a video either.

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