Itunes artist list display - compilations

Hi there,
Wondering if anyone can help me...
When I view itunes as a list - under the artist list, it starts with 'All', then 'compilations', then starts the alphabetized list of artists......I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how i can move artists listed under 'compilations' and simply have their artist names listed with all the other artists (under 'All')? (This occurs with past and present versions of itunes).
I've got hundreds of artists listed and lose track of what's under 'compilations'.
Thank you in advance for your time and insight.

Someone is posting a similar problem, and this problem has gone unanswered for me for the past few months:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12990298#12990298

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