ITunes album sorting issue

Hi everyone. ( :
I'm currently having a minor yet aggravating issue with iTunes, where—upon album import—it separates albums, or even singles. It's a bit hard to explain, so I've included an image capture of the problem:
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/6150/itunesissue.png
I've checked the ID3 tags and pretty much everything, and iTunes still doesn't join the albums, and the fact that I can't figure out why iTunes does this is what's so annoying.
It only happens when I click the arrow to show the artwork in the list view, but it doesn't happen to all my albums and singles, though, just the few, and so far, the only temporary workaround that seems to do the job is going through the ID3's (empty) sorting fields and typing a single space in each box, like so:
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/254/itunesissue2.png
It'd be nice to be able to import my music without having to do all that, of course. And since I've never had this problem in any of the previous versions of iTunes, I wonder if my particular problem is a bug or something?
Is anyone else having this problem as well? I've been lurking through the iTunes forum and haven't seen another report of this issue. I'm kind of at a loss as to what I should do about 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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