IPod lists multiple listings of 2 albums after I sync

I bought The Joshua Tree (Remastered) [Deluxe Edition] and Live from Paris from iTunes almost two years ago. This year I decided to purchase The Unforgettable Fire (Remastered) [Deluxe Edition] and upgrade all of my U2 Remasters to iTunes Plus. I ALWAYS buy the Deluxe Editions. Anyway, I upgraded everything but Live from Paris. I noticed that after I synced my iPod, the iPod was listing The Joshua Tree and Live from Paris each three times.
This is how they were listed:
The Joshua Tree (Remastered) [Deluxe Edition]
2 Songs
Live from Paris
1 Song
The Joshua Tree (Remastered) [Deluxe Edition]
4 Songs
Live from Paris
1 Song
The Joshua Tree (Remastered) [Deluxe Edition]
17 Songs
Live from Paris
16 Songs
But when you click on each album title, every song is listed in the correct order. Searching through the iTunes folder, no song is duplicated, and no song is missing. iTunes says I have 447 U2 songs, yet my iPod says I have 430.
I upgraded Live from Paris to iTunes Plus to see if this would correct the problem; it didn't.
I have a 160gb iPod Classic from 2007, I am running Windows 7 (although I am confident this is not a Windows issue), I am running the latest version of iTunes (v9.1.1.12) and this problem has occured a couple of previous versions of iTunes ago.
Something is up with my iPod. My question is: has anyone else encountered this problem with the U2 albums I've mentioned or with any album by any other group?

UPDATE: The problem lies in the duplication of tracks and placed in the wrong spots. On "The Joshua Tree", I hear the live version of "Trip Through Your Wires" from "Live from Paris" instead of the studio version from "The Joshua Tree" you would normally expect to hear. When I click on "Exit", I hear the live version from "Live from Paris" instead of the studio version from "The Joshua Tree". Those two songs on "The Joshua Tree" have the same file sizes and same running times as their counterparts from "Live from Paris", and you are hearing the live versions instead of the studio versions. So when I upgraded "The Joshua Tree" to iTunes Plus format, iTunes slipped me the live versions of "Trip Through Your Wires" and "Exit" taken from "Live from Paris". This is NOT what I want.
And my iPod STILL lists the albums like this:
The Joshua Tree
2 Songs
Live from Paris
1 Song
The Joshua Tree
4 Songs
Live from Paris
1 Song
The Joshua Tree
17 Songs
Live from Paris
16 Songs
The Deluxe Edition of "The Joshua Tree" that I bought has 25 tracks, and my iPod doesn't list that.
"Live from Paris" has 18 tracks -- same problem.
How can I get Apple to correct everything???

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