Duplicate TV Shows in iPod Menu

I've had one season of family guy on my ipod for a few months now that i edited the metadata with lostify to get them to show up under "tv shows"- I just got 2 more seasons on dvd and ripped them to my ipod and downloaded the new version of lostify and edited their metadata as well. when i put all of the seasons on my ipod, there are two entries for family guy under "tv shows" and if i select either of them i am able to see all of my episodes, from all 3 seasons, under each entry in the "tv shows" menu. i figured there must be some inconsistency in how i labeled the files so i ran them all, old and new seasons, through lostify again and used the check boxes to make sure that the same info was being copied to each- and i didnt have any luck with that- the two entries for family guy still show up on my ipod- i determined that if i only put the two new seasons or the one old season on, then there's only one entry for family guy. anyone know what is going on? or does anyone know of a program that will completely delete all metadata for a file so i can re-label them all at once and see if that works?
thanks in advance,
matt

In iTunes, right click on these shows, select "get info/options" and then in the "media kind" box select "TV show".
Transfer these to your iPod and they should show up under the TV show menu.

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