IPod Classic Album Issue

Hello,
I recently purchased an iPod Classic from a local retailer. Everything about it works great except for one thing that is really anoying.
I have a full album by a band that I purchased on iTunes a couple of years ago. For some reason I can't get the album to properly sync with my iPod. What it shows is 6 songs in one album and 22 in another and there is a total of 28 songs on the album. I've completely checked line by line in the "Get Info" section to make sure all the artist name and album information and track information matched up like it should. I've even checked for odd occurences in the title like an upper case versus a lower case character. No such luck to be found. I've also tried to completely remove the album from iTunes by moving the files to the trash, re-syncing my iPod to remove the files then taking the files out of the trash and placing them back into iTunes. I then sync the iPod again and it still shows up the same way! I'm out of ideas here and have spent literally a couple hours trying to figure this one out and have had no luck. The odd thing is when you click on either album cover it lists all the songs in the album even though it says 6 for one album cover and 22 for another both have the full 28 track listing.
Very odd.
Please help me if you can!

Since you seem to have checked alll the other possibilities, it may be an extra "space" character at the end of some text and they are very hard to spot.
One thing you could try; use the artist name (since it sounds as though that's the field that causing the problem) and copy it from one of the songs and then paste it into every other song on the album. By using copy and paste, you know that the same information is now on every track (for that field).
You obviously need to Sync that change to the iPod (I guess you knew that... but for the benefit of anyone else reading this).
Does that fix it?

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