Incomplete list of songs by artist

My list of Songs by Artist seems to be incomplete on the iPod. On iTunes, I've verified I've got 4 songs for a single artist. They all sort together in the artist list.
However if I navigate to songs by artist in the iPod, only one of these songs shows up. I can find the others only by song title.
I've tried mass-changing the artist on all 4 songs at once and re-synching to make sure the artist name was the same, but I can't seem to fix the problem.
Any advice? It's annoying to have to scroll through all the artists only to find out I have to scroll through songs as well because the iPod is being screwy.
Message was edited by: MellyJC

See: Some songs don't show under artist on my iPod.

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