Arranging Library by Album

I've noticed a little problem with arranging my music library by album.
Say you've got three albums titled "Greatest Hits". iTunes doesn't automatically arrange the album by artist, so all your Greatest Hits albums are jumbled.
Sure, you could change the titles to each album to say, "Tom Petty's Greatest Hits" or "Billy Idol's Greatest Hits". This, though, will cause any album information in the Mini Store to be inaccurate. (I don't know about you, but I like my album information to be 100% accurate!)
Has anyone found a way to overcome this? Also, does anyone know if iTunes plans on organizing similarly titled albums by artist?
20" iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

It would be good to find resolution to this for me too. Say you have Santana, featuring -----
and featuring ----- on another cut
and featuring ----- on another cut, etc.
You wind up with all of these titles stored separately, rather than grouped with their entire album.
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