ITunes 10 (Humpty Dumpty) - Getting albums back together again?

Why has iTunes 10 suddenly split compilation albums? Some tracks will not join back into the correct album, no matter how hard I try to shepherd them there. Some tracks do not have album art, when their siblings do.
I have tried selecting all tracks, selecting 'part of a compilation' and trying to get them sorting as one album, but alas, they will come back together again.
What has apple done? Any hints?

turingtest2,
I read your link above and found it very helpful.  I do have a question regarding it.  I am not in front of my laptop with iTunes on it, so I will go from memory. 
From what I recall, in iTunes 11.0.1 on my PC laptop, it seems to be organized as such that when I click on artist (left pane) I can see all albums by that artist including compilations that they are on.  This seems tidy and well from what I can recall.
On my iPhone, when I click on artists, not all of their albums show up, specifically, if the album is a "compilation" or they are part of a soundtrack.  When I click on albums on my iPhone, I can finally see the album that they are on.  Now, this is not true for all artists it seems as some of them show up (the compilation album) when I view by artist on my iPhone, so, slightly inconsistent.  It is very frustrating because some of the albums which are straighforward albums show up as compilations so I can't see them unless I click all albums on my iPhone and then know the speficic album I am looking for.
Regardless, like I said it all seems tidy in iTunes, however I would like to:
1.  Be able to see all albums the artist is on on my iPhone
2.  I am concerned that if I turn off group compilations that it will split up all these tracks and make a mess of my library. 
3.  In order to tidy this up, I entered Album Artists for some where albums were split up (tracks that have feat. or your example of Clapton however the track was by Cream) so that they all were grouped on the same album as they should be.
I guess my bottom line is, how do I see all the albums for each artist even if it is part if a compilation/soundtrack without messing up my iTunes since it seems fine now that I have altered album artists in some cases and in others, artists that are part of a compilation show up as seperate artists?
Am I making sense?

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