Problems migrating a playlist into iTunes...

Hi folks,
I am having very frustrating problems migrating some music into my iTunes library and making it into a playlist which will display the tracks in the way that I want. I might not know some technical terms here, but I will try to be as clear and concise as possible!
I have some music (the 'Glee' TV show soundtrack)that I downloaded elsewhere (i.e not from iTunes), and I just want to move it into an iTunes playlist, to display the tracks in the 'standard' way- that is, all in one 'block', numbered and sequenced in the correct running order.
So all I did is exactly what I have done before: created a new playlist from the iTunes 'file' menu, given the playlist a name, then dragged and dropped each track from the folder that I downloaded the music into originally. So in this case- I dragged and dropped each track from it's location in a folder called 'J Girl music', which is where I download music for my girlfriend to.
Now, I don't know whether the fact that the soundtrack is by a bunch of different artists (rather than just one) is part of the problem here, but what I get when I drag and drop into the iTunes 'Glee' playlist (using 'as list' as my 'view' option) is the tracks in the playlist displayed in 'clusters'.
So the first two tracks appear in one separate, delineated box then the next two in a separate, delineated box and so on (kind of like having a number of individual albums within the playlist)- and each 'block' has its own separate album art displayed to the left. I hope people can visualise what I mean here- things seem easy to explain until you try to put them into words!
So really all I want is for the 'Glee' playlist to be the same as my other ones-the tracks in one 'block' with no boxes separating them and sequenced in the correct order.
I have tried a number of things to fix this: I have right-clicked on tracks (both from the playlist and the library) gone into 'info' and numbered them e.g 1 of 18, 2 of 18, etc. I have changed the info about artist to the heading 'various artists', I have tried checking the box that says 'part of a compilation', but no matter what I seem to do tracks 3,4,5 etc will not 'jump' and sit themselves directly underneath tracks 1 and 2- the 'boxes' dividing them remain!
I hope I have explained this problem clearly (I really tried to) and I would be very appreciative of any help a forum member or members can provide. Thanks in advance.

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