Apple TV Artist Sorting

Sorry if this has been posted before - I've done a bit of searching and cannot find this problem.
First off, I should state that I love my AppleTV - I use it on a regular basis as a music jukebox and a to show my holiday snaps to family. It's a device with good potential in the future and I can't wait for movie rental to hit the UK.
The question is probably a result of my ignorance and is to do with the order which my 'Various Artists' albums show up.
When I go into Music-Artists, I see my artists listed in alphabetical order until I hit albums with a sort artist of "Various". For example, my ATV look a little like this:
The Undertones...
UNKLE...
<Peaches>
<Smiths>
<Garbage>
Velvet Underground...
Vines..
(The above is obviously abbreviated)
The artists shown in <...> are on albums with sort artists of 'Various Artists'. Obviously, I would like my list to run:
The Undertones...
UNKLE...
Various Artists
Velvet Underground...
Vines..
with the Various Artists then splitting down to the albums. In iTunes Album view it works perfectly with all of my Various Artist albums showing in the correct place. I do realise that Album View in iTunes is vastly different to the ATV interface but can anybody think of a way to replicate this view?
Actually, does anybody know why apple decided against putting coverflow on ATV? It is such a great way of navigating music (or anything for that matter!).
I'd appreciate any thoughts or input from you guys!

You're right, this is still a BIG issue on the TV. iTunes and the iPod have a feature that can be used to hide compilation artists from appearing in the artist lists, but they didn't see fit to bother including this on the TV.
Also iTunes and the iPod use the 'Sort' fields for sorting lists, but the TV ignores them completely.
I can only assume these are either an oversight, or simply a matter of time, although IMO they're far more important than Apple just being greedy trying to grab Video rental sales.
I only hope they do get these issues fixed soon. Make sure you send feedback about this to encourage them to prioritise it.

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Help with Artist Sort Problem Needed...

This is a bit long, so I'll start with the three main questions and below them is the backstory and detail of the problem (I did do a search but nothing turned up):
1) Does anyone know how to fix artist sorting issues where the artists are properly sorted (alphabetically by last name and band name) but there are constant grey-bar letter headings for the first name (sorry...I don't know how to explain better than I do below in detail)
2) Will re-setting the Touch require I have to...
a) re-add all the songs I've manually selected again
b) re-input any data saved to apps (such as CarCare and
Pocketpedia) and if so, can I backup that data first?
3) If all the re-doing in 2 above is necessary if I were to re-set the iPod, can anyone think of an alternative fix that would avoid a reset?
I might be able to get to an Apple store this weekend to ask a "genius" but I'm not that confident in them since I was given some incorrect information on how the Touch handles playlists at the time of original purchase.
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I'm not sure what to make of this, fortunately playback and all main functions are unaffected. I have my iPod Touch 2g set for manual sync. Today, while I was charging it at work, my PC (WinXP) froze. I gave it plenty of time to unfreeze, but eventually had no choice but to do a hard reboot while the iPod said "syncing." I slid the slider to cancel the sync, but the iPod didn't respond. I unhooked it from the PC and it unfroze. I shut it down and re-started.
Everything seemed fine after the iPod reboot except that now, while the artists are still sorted alphabetically (I've manually set artists to sort by last name), there are headers using the first letter of the first name between each artist. So, for instance, this is how the top of my artist list looks now (lines below with just a letter are the grey divider bar with the alphabetical header):
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Ryan Adams
D
Dave Alvin
T
Tori Amos
E
Eric Andersen
A
Apples in Stereo
Arcade Fire
L
Louis Armstrong
A
Ataris
...etc.
This problem has not extended to album or song title fields, but for some reason, when scrolling through the album view using the index on the right, it moves fine until "O" -- then it sits still as I scroll down until it gets to "#", at which point it's resposnive again.
I've checked the music library on the iPod via iTunes and the artist sort fields are still correct.
Suggestions? I'm new to the Touch and am leery of doing a reset yet since it's taken time to figure out which songs from my 100+gb library to manually put on this. Also, I have no idea how it will affect the apps I've downloaded. There are some where I've saved data (such as CarCare and Pocketpedia) and I REALLY don't want to risk having to re-input all that data.
To anyone with any words of advice, thanks in advance.
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