ITunes 5/iPod: Error alphabetizing artists with accents

It appears that after my recent upgrade to iTunes 5 that any artists with accents in the artist name that are being duplicated 2-5 times in my artists list on my iPod.
For instance a band called "Dälek" would be listed multiple times since the iPod or iTunes is unable to identify where this artist should be placed alphabetically. This in turn caused any subsequent artists to duplicate (within the letter range) in the artist list on my iPod. This was never a problem in any other version of iTunes.
I haven't been able to identify that the accent is indeed the error, but I have since deleted the questionable artist and the problem was fixed. Also, the artist appears only once in iTunes and when you view the contents of the iPod in iTunes.
If anyone else can test this and confirm this to be the case I would appreciate it.
Thanks.

Very rarely I get the program running, but as soon as I plug in the iPod the program crashes.
hi Thomas!
okay ... doing some preliminary checking up on your situation at this point, because there are certain rare registry problems that "mimic" some of the standard errors.
what error message are you getting under these circumstances? "itunes has encountered an error ..." by any chance?
love, b

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