IPod song browsing problem

Hi, I'm having trouble finding some songs on my iPod. For example I have Song A and Song B, both by Artist X. Song A is tagged as belonging to Album A while Song B does not have any Album tags. When I go to Music--->Artists--->Artist X, the iPod skips automatically to Album A and does not allow me to see Song B. However, when I browse through "Songs", Song B is in my iPod anyway.
If I remember clearly, in my old iPod, the behavior was after picking an artist, it would show "All" and the Album names. However, now it just seems to jump straight to the songs with Album names, disregarding the ones where the album name is blank.
Take note, that this only happens when there the songs by one artist either have no Album tag or belong to one other distinct album.
What seems to be the problem?
Hope I made sense here. Btw, it's a 30GB iPod video
I've tried resetting the iPod and doing a restore, but it still is that way. Is this how all new iPods behave now? (My old iPod was an iPod photo)
Thanks

This is the same with all 5g iPods. You will have to
add something into the album column. Single, stand
alone track or just some _
Oh thanks. Is it really supposed to be like this or is this a bug? Frankly, I prefer the old way better.

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When I connect my iPod touch to iTunes on my PC - under library there is a Music folder and under iPod there is a Music folder. Which music folder isn't showing the track rating?
If the Library Music folder isn't showing ratings then see A) Updating Ratings in Library Music
If the iPod Music folder isn't showing ratings then see B) Seeing Ratings in iPod Music
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9) an optional step. Once I've rated my tracks I delete them from my iPod.
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