ITunes mixed some of my albums together

I'm quite new to the iTunes-thing and I wanted to make sure every album had it's cover visible. So I selected all the songs in my iTunes library and some of the different boxes in the info menu (Artisit, Album, Genre, ...). This caused iTunes to put all the songs into one album named 'Unknown album' from an 'Unknown artist'. This includes the songs that I bought from the iTunes store.
I already tried deleting them and downloading them again, but the problem stays.
Is there anyway to divide the songs/albums again?

The problem is that you've inadvertently deleted the information that iTunes uses to organize songs into albums - although other fields can affect this, without Artist and Album information iTunes can't show anything other than a collection of songs by an Unknown Artist collected into an Unknown Album. For purchases from the iTunes store you should be able to recover this information - select Edit > Preferences > Store and make sure the Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases box is checked; this should overwrite any changes you've made locally by that pulled from the Store.
If you have chosen not to have iTunes organize your library (Edit > Preferences > Advanced) then your songs should still be in the original folder structures (e.g., by artist and album) - it may be possible to use a script solution to make some repairs.
Otherwise (assuming that you don't have a backup of your complete iTunes library folder structure - which you really should have to be able to recover from situations like this) you're faced with either deleting everything apart from iTunes Store purchases and reimporting from the original source (CD, etc.), or going through songs one-by-one and re-entering the Artist and Album info that you previously removed. It is one of the less-friendly aspects of iTunes that there are cases, like this one, where selecting a checkbox next to an apparently blank field can result in bulk deletion of important data.

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I read your link above and found it very helpful. I do have a question regarding it. I am not in front of my laptop with iTunes on it, so I will go from memory.
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