My itunes library went nuts. please help

I noticed today, that some of my compilations started showing up in the wrong parts of my cover flow. Before they would all sit nicely towards the end, then I saw that two of them where now mixed in with the V's, listed under various artist. Weird. I manually fix those two artist, and they seemed to go back to where they belonged, by editing the ID3 tags myself, even though those albums I purchased on itunes.
Then I noticed another soundtrack (compilation) was listed in another part of the coverflow, this time in the O's, and now I'm thinking my library somehow got messed up.
I rebooted a couple of times, and now when I view my itunes library, it list the artist as if Group by Compilations isn't checked. So now my soundtracks show up several times, mixed in with regular artist. I keep checking, and unchecking, and rechecking group compilations in the preferences, but it just doesn't work. The songs are still marked as part of a compilation.
This is really irritating me! Anyone have any ideas?

I must be really really tired.
I turned off the Album by Artist tab.... and there it is.
Problems solved. I'm going to bed now, apparently I need sleep.

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