Duplicate Cover Flow on "Various Artists" Albums

Hi. I know this has been asked a thousand times, I did do a Search and found a solution but it doesnt seem to want to work for me.
The way I thought you were supposed to fix this problem is to Open iTunes, Select Every Song on the Album, Get Info, Type a Name in the Album Artist Field, Select Compilation, Hit OK.
When I do this, iTunes "processes" the songs but then nothing happens. If I go back to Get Info, it doesnt save anything I typed in.
Any ideas?? Do I not have the right privlidges? (Im supposed to be Admin) ... Is it a setting in iTunes?? I'm lost, and the duplicate cover flow is sooooooooo annoying!! Plz help!!

I think it is a good idea to start a backup strategy since it is not a matter of "if" but "when" your internal drive will have problems. Sometimes it can be costly not only in terms of time but also money to buy software that may or may not recover your internal drive. If you have to buy $200 worth of software to recover your drive you may as well have bought a decent backup drive in the first place. However, you already have that drive. Is your iMac a newer Intel model? If so, and if your drive is USB then I believe you can boot your Mac from that, otherwise you need a Firewire drive.
This is starting to get outside my area of expertise since I just have Tiger on an older PPC, and the capabilities and requirements of newer intel Macs and Leopard will change your backup strategy parameters. Depending upon the size of your internal drive and other factors you might end up wanting to partition your external into one general backup partition which is the same size as your internal drive, and a second partition for extra data storage. However, you should never have important data only on one drive and the problem with the aforementioned strategy is you don't have a backup for the data you have on that second partition on your external drive should the external drive fail! When I expand I always buy two drives so I can have backup for the extra data. The exception is where I have backups on CDs or DVDs. For example, my CDs on my internal drive are already "backed up" in the form of the original CDs in my collection.
I know this is going beyond your initial question but you should think about it. You might also want to read and/or post in the Leopard or iMac forum about a good strategy for backing up your computer.

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