Apple TV partially accesses my iTunes Library

Not sure if anyone else has run into this problem, but when using Apple TV to access iTunes from my computer it only partially finds the music I have within iTunes.
Checked Home Sharing, the ID's are syncronized correctly, but I'm missing multiple songs and genres.  My videos are fine but it seems only to be a problem for my music.

A better example of what I am running into - I just imported a cd from Amazon into my iTunes library on my PC. When I turned on ATV2 to listen, the songs were listed in alpha order. Next day I went in to play it again, songs sorted in track order, then it switched back to alpha order the next time.
The other issue, I have a number of classic jazz cd's recorded by Ella Fitzgerald. To keep them organized, I did some clean up of the Artist names so that they were all Ella Fitzgerald (instead of Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald and her Ally Cats). In iTunes, all cds are listed under ella. in ATV2, they are listed as they are in the source material. So, I have to go into each variation of Ella to determine which album I want to hear.
Thoughts about that?

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