ITunes Library - How to deal with assorted tracks

I have a large collection of individual MP3 tracks that I don't have the complete album for. Because I mainly use Windows Media Player and Winamp for my music I didn't want these individual tracks polluting my main album collection, so I set the ID3 tags for all these tracks such that the Album field was empty and Album Artist was set to 'Various Artists', leaving only the Track Name and Artist fields with meaningful data.
Because I recently acquired an iPhone I have to use iTunes to get my MP3s on it. Unfortunately iTunes doesn't seem to like the way I've organised my assorted MP3s. It's decided to use an arbitrary album art image for all of the tracks and just lists individual tracks in library view, but some of them are grouped with others in a way that makes no real sense.
Is there a way to get iTunes to exclude these tracks or deal with them separately? Like to ignore them in Album view, but still make them available for loading onto my iPhone?

Setting the *Album Artist* field is usually a help in keeping things together. If you want a bunch of assorted tracks to merge into one "virtual" compilation album, then set *Part of a compilation* to "Yes", *Album Artist* to "Various Artists" and set Album to something suitable like "Assorted Tracks". You can either leave the track numbers that you have, assign new ones to control the order, or delete them all in which case they will probably sort on track name or date added order (sorry, it's been a while since I explored the behavior of unnumbered tracks).
For general tips on tidying up in iTunes see http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
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