Album Display Not grouping tracks correctly

Hello,
I'm having a strange behavior in iTunes while in 'List View'.
When in list view, when I select an album, I have the first track on it's own with the artwork displayed with track information then there's a separator followed by the artwork again followed by the other tracks.
It looks like this: http://tinyurl.com/kjugt9
When I go in '~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/<artist>/<album>', all the tracks are in there, all in the same artist/album folder.
I tried to edit all tracks (Get Info) at the same time to set the different values (Artist, year, album, genre, year, etc) but grouping remains the same.
This issue does not cause any specific problem except that for few albums the track 'grouping' is not correct. This is quite random, I see that on few albums but I still don't know what's happening.
Any idea on what I should check next ?
Thanks

Problem solved.
At first try I forced update (enabled each checkbox) of each field into the Info & Sorting tab but it remained the same.
Looking at individual tracks I saw that some of them had Sorting info but it could not be updated: deleting the value and clicking OK was not updating the Sort field.
I then selected all the tracks and put a dummy value in every field in the Sorting tab. Tracks were grouped again now. Finally, I edited again all the tracks to deleted the values I previously enterered. Tracks are still grouped again.
I applied that procedure against the remaining albums that had that problem and it worked for each of them.
Thank you.

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http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/188/ssngtud2.jpg
As you can see some songs from System of a downs album "Steal this album" are arranged as separate songs, how can I change this?
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http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2387/ndctt6.jpg
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Message was edited by: happydui

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For the second issue, make sure all songs on the album are marked as "Part of a Compilation", then sort your library as "Album by Artist" (you may need to click the Album header a few times to see that). The Compilations will then be bumped to the bottom of your library. On your iPod, turn Compilations ON to see similar grouping of compilations.

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Message was edited by: ObiRich

ObiRich wrote:
Thanks! I'd looked through the troubleshooting and didn't find any info.
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