ITunes 8 and Compilation Albums

Hi everybody,
Just wondering why my compilation albums show an individual album for each artist?
If I view the individual track info, it says it belongs to a compilation. If I select the whole album while in browse mode, and then 'get info' and select 'options', it says it is part of a compilation as well, though the tick box isn't checked. I also have 'Group Compilations' selected in my iTunes preferences. Could this be a bug?
Thanks for any tips.
Message was edited by: steve pick

Given all of the other options I had selected, it's part of a compilation, I had the correct setting in the preferences, the album title was the same title for each track of the compilation, I found it odd that iTunes still wouldn't group it. It wasn't immediate obvious what the problem was, which is odd. Album Artist isn't displayed in the browse table by default, so how could I know it wasn't filled out.
I only discovered the 'fix' after visiting the group here and searching through posts about compilations. Normally Apple products 'work' a little better than that. Most folks wouldn't know where to start. I work in a software development company so I knew the answer was somewhere in the application, but the fix was not obvious.
Given 'clelanjh's' advice for the fix, it wasn't obvious to him/her either.
Message was edited by: steve pick

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