Is there a way to solve itunes/Gracenote problems?

At least I think they are Gracenote problems.
Let's do one issue at a time.
Many albums I've loaded with CDs appear in iTunes as separate albums. For example, Brian Eno's "Apollo" album. If I look on Album View and Click on "Apollo" the album track list appears (Note:On my Mac the tracks are not consecutive--there are three missing tracks. On my iPad via Remote he tracks are re-numbered consecutively). As you guessed, three tracks are "missing." Turns out those missing tracks are listed as a separate album (Apollo) by "Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno."
I see this same thing with many albums--the album divided up like it is many albums apparently based on an author metadata feild. For example, the Chieftan's Long Black Veil is divided into I don't know how many seperate "albums" becuase each song had a different guest participant. But yet it was burned from a single CD at one time.
I know I can go back and fix all this manually--what a nightmare. Is there any way to fix thise automatically? Anyway to prevent it from happening in the future?
I don't want to add "database managr" to my long list of daily responsibilities!
--Darin

Those things were "solved" years ago.
Steve MacGuire aka turingtest2 - iTunes & iPod Hints & Tips - Grouping Tracks Into Albums - http://www.samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp (older post on Apple Discussions http://discussions.apple.com/message/9910895)
Quick answer:  Select all the tracks on the album, File > get info, and either give them all a single "album artist", or check the "compilation" flag (as in https://discussions.apple.com/message/17670085).
If these are from multiple-CD sets you may also need to enter the appropriate information in the disc number fields.

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