Cover flow is not displaying greatest hits albums correctly.

Cover flow is not displaying greatest hits albums correctly.
To reproduce this, I have deleted all of my music out of itunes and sync'ed to my ipod - (160gb classic). At this point it is empty. Then I have loaded three greatest hits cds into itunes. (From mp3s that I have encoded). All are tagged with:
- Name of track
- Album Artist
- Artist
- Album Name
- Track #
- Compilation flag is off
- all tracks have the correct artwork
Each of the albums have the same name = Greatest Hits.
The artist name and album artist is different for each of the three albums.
itunes shows each of the three albums seperately.
When I sync to the ipod, coverflow on the ipod shows only one album cover. (The cover of the first artist alphabetically.) All of the songs from all of the albums
Music->Artists lists the three artists correctly.
Music->Albums lists one album (incorrectly) and All songs (45 songs)
Setting sort-album to a unique value for each album e.g. Artist 1-GH, Artist 2-GH does not change anything.
Any ideas that don't involve changing the names of the albums slightly by capitalisation or adding spaces or adding the artist's name?
Thanks

dpr99 wrote:
Any ideas that don't involve changing the names of the albums slightly by capitalisation or adding spaces or adding the artist's name?
Nope. See my post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums for a run down of the various issues. Short of waiting for a firmware fix you'll have to use one workaround or another. My preference is *Album - Album Artist* as this clearly shows which album is which when scanning for albums in the three panel browser.
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