Changing Sort Order - Help

So far iTunes seems to work ok, but I cant seem to get it to sort the music the way I want....
I want to be able to sort by the Artist column first, then by the Name column.
I have tried about everything I can think of but everytime I tell it to sort by Artist, the second sort column is always the Album column. I dont care what album the songs are on, I just want to see all the songs with the same title grouped together when looking at a particular artist.
Please tell me there is a way to do this....
Joe
Windows XP

I don't think you can do exactly what you want, when you sort by artist, Itunes sorts by artist/album/track number.
The nearest work around is to open the browse window when you are in the library view. (the little eye, top right).
Then if you select an artist, just the tracks from that artist are displayed, you can then sort by the name column.

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> We have a problem on our Netware drives. Changing the sort order (by
> date) more than two times makes the actual explorer window almost
> unusable.
> The gray progress bar within the adress field takes hours to complete
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> Netware 6.5 SP8 / Windows 7 64 Bit / Novell Client 2 SP3 f�r Windows 7
> (IR10a) or (IR4)
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