ITunes album display issue

Hey guys - hoping somone know how to fix this...
I've kept my iTunes up to date, and not even updating iTunes seems to work. I started to get this problem after updating to Lion.
When in Grid view, after clicking on an album to view the tracks, for some reason it displays as a TV Season. Does anyone else have this problem? Any other view I use (song, coverflow, list) works fine - it's just this view.
Here's what it looks like:
Does anyone know how to fix this?

I have had one or two cases of album names appearing identical in every regard except a very slight difference in appearance of one of the characters which suggested it might be derived from a different font or something similar. In that case pasting the information from one file to the other overcame the issue.
The other thing to check is if the artists are all absolutely identical too. Again, it is easy to accidentally introduce a space, or to use one kind of dash instead of another which may be almost indistinguishable to you but forces itunes to think the album is an album with the same name but by a different artist so it isn't really one album but two.

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