Multiple copies of album displaying in Ipod

My kids just purchased new 30G 5G ipods. I have them set up using different accounts in Windows XP SP2. They have begun to build their libraries with owned CD's only (nothing from the music store). My daughter's Ipod (after about four sync's -- I have Itunes set to auto sync everything) is showing the same album about 12 times. It is displayed only once in Itunes. Each album on the ipod has the same songs in it -- and all appear to play. I have tried to re-sync, but the ipod does not change. Nothing else appears wrong. I have not been able to find this problem mentioned in this forum or on the Apple support site. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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A spelling or punctuation mistake, or sometimes a trailing space usually causes this after the artists/album and/or song name, which fools the iPod into thinking that there are two different artists/albums or songs. The trailing space is the hardest to spot.
Best way to cure this is to go into iTunes, highlight that artist and/or songs, right click on them and select "get info".
This brings up the multiple song info window. In the artist or song box retype the name, as you would like it, and then click ok. You should do this even if no mistakes are immediately visible.
Re sync this new artist/song info to your iPod.

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