Combining several songs into one album

I have numerous songs from different artists that I want to combine into one album, so that when I browse using either Cover Flow or Album View, all those songs will be listed under one album. After over two hours of searching on the Internet I found this very useful site:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304389
The problem that I am encountering is the one illustrated under the heading "Albums with various artists." After following all the recommendations, I am still encountering the same problem - each song is listed under a separate album. Anyone have any idea what to do? For the record I have already tried these remedies:
-Selected all the songs and changed the album name so that they all have the exact same album name
-Selected all the songs and changed the album artist name so that they all have the exact same album artist name
-Selected all the songs and set "compilation" to "yes"
-In Preferences, under the General tab I checked "Group compilations when browsing"
Thank you in advance.

The albums will only show up under the same cover in Cover Flow if you are sorting by Album or Album by Artist.

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