Generating an album list export?

All,
Sorry if this is a common question. My search-fu is weak and I didn't see an answer in this forum in google. Sorry if I missed it.
I have a LOT of albums in my iTunes library. Most of them are imported from my other PC, where for years, I've been encoding CDs as I buy them. Lots of my albums had inconsistent names, or were split into multiple albums, so I've spent a lot of time importing them into iTunes and combining multi-folder albums (multi-CD albums) into one item/element in iTunes. I've also got my spelling (Last, First) how I like it through editing in iTunes.
My actual folder names under Music/iTunes don't show up in the awesome way I've made them show up in iTunes. On disk, the data is still inconsistently named (based on crappy years-old inconsistent id tags). In the application, everything is named and sorted exactly like I want (in the album picture view, or in the list view if I sort album-by-artist in the column just left on genre).
However, I need a way to easily generate a txt or html or xml list of my data, on this ALBUM basis, not a song basis. iTunes thinks/works like most people do ... "that song was great, I want that one". I don't. I buy full albums, and I listen to full albums, and when I post a list of my music online and/or make an archive of what I have for insurance purposes (I physically own all the CDs), I need to see/export/list things on an ALBUM basis.
I'm wondering if there is a way to do this, or if there is an iTunes plug-in or app that will export on an album basis? Please let me know if there is.
Also, let me give an example. I have a 7 or 8 CD (I forget) collection of 80s music. In iTunes, when I look at the album-by-artist view, it shows up as simply ONE item. That's what I want in terms of playing the album (I never play songs, as such) and that's what I want in an export:
"Various Artists" - "OMG its the 80s".
What I absolutely do NOT want to show up is something awful like this:
"ABBA" - "OMG its the 80s"
"Blondie" - "OMG its the 80s"
etc.
(As an aside, I find the artist view on my iPod to be intolerably useless because it shows these little individual entries on there for songs that are from compilations, when I only want to see "Various Artists" show up as the artist. I don't want to see ABBA show up if its from a multi-artist compilation. I may have to go back in and over-write the data of the artists, which I do consider useful, to simply "Various Artists" so that I can have some sanity in my "by artist" view on my iPod).
Anyway, if iTunes can export an album-based listing, or if you know of a plug-in or app that will do this, I would love to know about it. Please help.
Thanks.

Try looking in Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes. There are a number of export scripts there, one of which may do what you want or may be easily modifiable to do what you want.
Regards.

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