Artists not showing up under artists list, common fixes not working.

Righto. So, I'm the proud owner of a fifth generation 30GB black Ipod.
Unfortunately, five-ish artists refuse to show up, among them Barenaked Ladies, Elton John, and Queensryche.
Given the rockitude of the above artists, you can understand my dilemma.
I only have one album by BNL, and no songs that aren't listed under an album, same story with Sir John.
Queensryche, however, is a different story. I have Operation: Mindcrime and a greatest hits album for them, some of the songs share titles but not albums.
Hey, just noticed something. Out of the three I listed, (the three that came most immediately to mind, there are others,) all of them are greatest hits albums. I have other GH albums, but those ones aren't functioning fantastically. I've done some research, tried to fix it m'self, nothing doing. Helpish?

I feel your pain. I'm having the exact same problem, and in several cases the artist only has one album in iTunes, so having multiple albums for the same artist is no the problem. My iPod software is updated, iTunes is updated, and everything including the artist's name appears in iTunes, but some (not all) are missing on the iPod under the "Artists" menu. Does anyone know of a fix, or is this a software bug?

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