Cover Flow and Artists names

I own a 16GB Touch but recently got an Iphone 3G and they both have the same issue. When viewing coverflow with a compilation, the artist displayed is from the first song regardless of which song is playing. If you rotate to portrait the correct artist for the song is displayed. Rotating back to coverflow the artist reverts to the first song on the album. Is there a setting or something I've missed to remedy this or is it a bug in coverflow?

Thanks, jere7my.
In other words, I should always make changes to my song text with the Cover Flow view selected.
I would never have the Cover Flow view selected while importing new albums, tracks, and artwork. I switched back to it after I was done personalizing my stuff. Thats when I started to notice they were still in lower case, even though I had changed them.

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