Lost Album in Album View

I have an album that I first synched with the iTouch that was titled Greatest Hits by Queen. I could see the album artwork no problem in album view. Then this last weekend I downloaded a couple of songs from the album Greatest Hits by Fleetwood Mac. Now the artwork for Queen is gone and the songs from the queen album are merged with the songs from the Fleetwood Mac album under the Fleetwood Mac artwork.
When I play the individual tracks the correct artwork for the song is displayed however.
It looks like when the album titles are the same name only the last album synched is displayed.
Question, do I need to rename the album and create a unique name in Get Info and if I do will I loose the artwork nextime I "Get Artwork" from iTunes or is this a bug in version 2.2.1 of the iPhone software? What the best way to resolve this issue?

is this an iphone or ipod touch.....
anyway, just go to the music section in itunes, find the song in question, right click, get info, artwork. Delete what is in there. Select advanced, get album artwork, and see if that fixes it. If not, just get an image file off the internet somewhere, preferrably a 300x300 image file or better. Save it in my pictures or either make a new file "albums", then go to the music section in itunes, find the song in question, right click, get info, artwork, add the image.

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