ITunes separated my cd into 3 albums

How do I fix this? My one imported cd became 3 albums. Tracks 1-30 are one album, track 31 is a second album and tracks 32-42 are on a third album. All the albums are the same name, same artist, same composer, same artwork. I can;t figure out how to get iTunes to recognize that this is one cd. These tracks were copied from an original cd, not downloaded.

Maybe you need to check the compilations box?
Here's examples of why that may be:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
Also, I noticed Gracenote has very bad tags for the last compilation CD I ripped. I had to fiddle with it to get the tags straight. Someone had entered a 4-disc set as "xxx" for the first three discs, then "xxx(Disc 4)" for the last disc.
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williamfromwellingb wrote:
please help!!
That's normally not a helpful information.
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