Group compilations in itunes 10

hello everybody.. i have just spent 3 hours reading post forums but nobody could really answear clearly about grouping compilations in itunes 10.
I have my library in an external disk, i have many compilations and now they are divided as artist.. how can I group all in the ORIGINAL compilation list and have them in order like out Itune or the original album pleaseeee
thanks a lot

Same problem here. And I thought I'd I figure out how to deal with it by making the Album Artist box blank and checking the Compilation box. I did that for all my multi-artist compilations and the tracks were grouped by album per the CD and listed as "Various Artists". That will allow you to play the album old school.
But, I lost the ability to list the track artist seperately, i.e., I have a compilation CD called EZ Riding' with the classic Golden Earring tune Radar Love. It and all the other tracks ripped into seperate iTunes tracks, not compiled, and there wasn't a single album with all the tracks. But, Golden Earring was a listed artist and if I listed Albums by Artist or looked in the Artist scroll bar, I could see Golden Earring.
After I blanked the Album Artist line for that track and selected Compilation, the Golden Earring track dissappeared from the Album by Artist list and the Artist scroll list, although if I search for them, I get the track id'd.
But I started fooling around with that one track by un-checking the Compilation box and re-inserting the Album Artist and instead of toggling, iTunes dis-aggregated the Album again and it now won't re-aggregate no matter what I do with the Album Artist and Compilation.
Bizarre.

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I get all artists listed alphibetically, which is really annoying. I presume the whole point of having a "group compilations" preference is so that it groups them, so whats going wrong>?
I browse my library in coverflow btw. And am using the new Itunes update...
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gah!!! wrote:
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