Albums Split Up When Importing

Hi,
Some albums I import into itunes get split up, when I look at the album artwork, so instead of one Album I get 18 single albums... Anyone else have this problem?

Edit the CD settings before ripping so the artist, album and album artist all agree. Some of the CDDB/Gracenote info is very odd.
Even if you have an album of Spanky Joe with 18 different guest artists (those "duet" albums come to mind here) you really don't want 18 different Joe Spanky & Jill Panky...X18... variations in your iPod or iTunes artist lists anyway. Yo can correct the CD info to whatever you want ahead of the rip (Tip: getting rid of "complications" is another fine idea.

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This is starting to make me angry. Any solutions out there?
PS; tried importing both as mp3 and with "apple lossless"
PS2; tried importing three times now, and track # 1 and 2 is there, as they should, but the rest of the 30 tracks are just numbers.
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I imported lots of songs into my itunes library from various sources (itunes store, CD's, and audio files converted from my vinyl records) This way, songs from a specific artist, and sometimes from a specific album, could come from different sources.
Now, I hope to arrange all the songs from a specific album to appear in the appropriate order, but I just can't find a way of doing this! The songs just appear in the way iTunes sorts them, without any relation to the original order of the album. Even more, in the iPod itself, the order changes once again with no appearant reason! (Interestingly enough, when I import all the songs of a specific album from one source, the order is kept)
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