ITunes sorting issue

As you can see in these two screens, iTunes isn't sorting some albums properly. They were fine before I reinstalled Lion.
The top screen shows the songs grouped, but not in order. And the second is pretty obvious.
They are both albums made up of random songs if that makes a difference.
http://i.imgur.com/aQVqh.png
http://i.imgur.com/Fys9S.png

Actually, the sorting is correct.
You are sorting on the Artist field.
Sort on Album or Album by Artist (clickthe Album column header a few times).

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    MusicBrainzReleaseId       :
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    AmazonId                   :
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    MusicBrainzReleaseType     :
    MusicBrainzReleaseCountry  :
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    AlbumArtists               : {Disney}
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    AlbumSort                  :
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    Track                      : 6
    TrackCount                 : 0
    Disc                       : 1
    DiscCount                  : 1
    Lyrics                     :
    Grouping                   :
    BeatsPerMinute             : 0
    Conductor                  :
    Copyright                  :
    MusicBrainzArtistId        :
    MusicBrainzReleaseId       :
    MusicBrainzReleaseArtistId :
    MusicBrainzTrackId         :
    MusicBrainzDiscId          :
    MusicIpId                  :
    AmazonId                   :
    MusicBrainzReleaseStatus   :
    MusicBrainzReleaseType     :
    MusicBrainzReleaseCountry  :
    Pictures                   : {}
    IsEmpty                    : False
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    FirstAlbumArtist           : Disney
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    FirstPerformer             : Disney
    FirstPerformerSort         :
    FirstComposerSort          :
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    JoinedComposers            : R. M. Sherman
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    M:\Music\Media\Music\Compilations\Album\9999 Title.mp3
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    EndTag                     : TagLib.NonContainer.EndTag
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    Tags                       : {, }
    Title                      : Title
    Performers                 : {Contributing artists}
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    AlbumArtistsSort           : {}
    AlbumArtists               : {Album artist}
    Composers                  : {Composers}
    ComposersSort              : {}
    TitleSort                  :
    AlbumSort                  :
    Album                      : Album
    Comment                    : Comments
    Genres                     : {Genre}
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    Track                      : 9999
    TrackCount                 : 0
    Disc                       : 0
    DiscCount                  : 0
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    Grouping                   : Group description
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    AmazonId                   :
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    http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/sorting.html

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