Library All Messed Up: Organization is Off...

I recently took the music from my old library and put it on my iTunes on my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 1520 with Vista).
While putting music on my Library, I had it organized by Artist (which I don't usually do). When I was done, I organized the Library by Album and a lot of the songs didn't show up...however, they were still there when I organized it by Artist again.
What is going on, and how can I fix this?

How did you organize by Artist? Do you mean you sorted by the Artist column in iTunes or did you pu songs into Artist folder in the music directory?

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