Multiple Appearances of the same album artwork

I was just wondering if there's any way to fix the way my album artwork is showing in the view with the artwork and songs listed at the same time. If I pull in one song at a time to import, it shows the artwork each time something is imported, instead of just showing it once for the whole album. Any way to fix this?

Mistake?
Yes, indeed. That can happen when you have several windows open and paste the URL from the wrong one.
Sorry for that.
Here is the correct one:
Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together?
M
17' iMac 800 MHz, 768 MB RAM, 200 GB HD, DL burner Mac OS X (10.4.8) iTunes 7.0.2

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