My itunes has reorganized itself....

I opened up my itues yesterday, and I'm unable to tell you how it became organized this way... I previously had all of my music in as "Albums". Each CD in my collection was separate, except for double/multiple disk albums, which were under one "cover" like the albums of my early vinyl years.
Now, I have say, a listing for "The Allman Brothers BAnd" artwork of "live at the Fillmore", and the listing under the cover artwork shows 4 albums, 62 songs.
One I noticed is entitled "Compliations" and has 51 albums filed in it.
I do not recall making any changes that would have preformed this change function, and perhaps it is a easy fix, but I'm not familiar with what it could be. Any ideas? my googling has gone for naught so far.......this happenned on all 100 G of my music, and I'm not happy about it. I cannot relate it to an upgrade , either.....
Ideas?

See my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums for tips on getting organised.
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