Itunes counts CDs with more than 1 artist more than 1 CD....why??

for example Talib Kweil, The Beautiful Struggle...the first 3 songs are only him but song 4 is with Faith Evans, song 5 is just him and song 6 has Mary J. on it. So songs 1-3 are grouped as 1 CD, but songs 4, 5, 6 are all grouped singly. So instead of 1 CD it is counted as 4 CDs...***...WHY???

I have the same problem. I am using the latest iTunes (7.2.0.35). However, it is not consistent.
For example, I have a couple soundtracks I re-ripped to mp3 recently and tried to "Add Folder to Library" them. The Beverly Hills Cop 2 soundtrack adds fine. However, the Beverly Hills Cop (1) soundtrack is added as 1 "CD" per song. I have the "Group Compilations as CD" set, but it still doesn't work right.
Even more confusing, when viewed by artist my "Greatest Hits" CD's are listed as CD's, but when viewed by album, they are jumbled up, one "CD" per song, with all the track 1 songs first, alphabetically ordered by artist, then the track 2, etc. It appears that iTunes orders these by "Album", "Track", and "Artist". How I WISH I could specify the order more intelligently (ie. Album, Artist, Track).
On the other hand, the City of Angels soundtrack (among others) is grouped as a CD under the Album sort, but as individual CD's under Artist. Because of this, if I want to look at (some) soundtracks as one CD, I have to do it under the Album sort, but that messes up the 10 or so "Greatest Hits" albums (see above). To see the greatest hits CD's fine, I have to do it under the Artist sort, but then many of the soundtracks are messed up.
It would be nice if iTunes had a "fall back" option of allowing the user to manually mark all the songs from a CD that are added like this (1 "CD" per song) with a "Group as Compilation" option that would "stick" in both the Artist and Album views. Especially with soundtracks. I also have three sets of "Greatest Hits of the 70's/80's" (8-9 CDs each) that combine the worst of both problems in that they show up as 1 CD/song under both the Artist and Album sorts. This did not happen when I imported them in the earlier version of iTunes!
IMO, these greatest hits CDs should be properly ordered regardless of whether viewed by Artist or Album.
When we first started using iTunes (7.1?), we did the "Add Folder to Library" with the albums (mp3 format at 128-256kbps bit rates, depending on the album) I am currently have problems with and iTunes imported them "correctly" with only a couple exceptions out of about 150 CD's. That time I just pointed iTunes to the folder I have all my ripped CD's in and it went to work.
Since that time I have re-ripped all the CD's to 320kbps (nice having an 80GB iPod! ), deleted all the old songs from iTunes (and "synced"/deleted all the songs from the iPod), "upgraded" to the latest version of iTunes (how could I possibly know this would blow up in my face like this?) and then tried adding my "ripped CD's" folder (with about 175 CD's in sub-folders) and ended up with over 750 "CD's" because of this problem. Since then I have deleted all the songs from that try and started adding folders individually, which is when I began to notice more of the particulars to this problem.
Oh, and I have not yet synced the iPod until I get this worked out (UGH! what a mess that would be to use...). Now we don't have our iPod to use (at least until we get this worked out).
Anyway, any help would be appreciated!
Scott
PS. Do ANY Apple support people monitor this forum?

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