Problems with Song Info in iTunes

I have a lot of music in my iTunes library that I've collected from friends or imported from old CD's. There are multiple instances in my library where iTunes treats songs from the same album as being from two different (but identical albums). In other words, I'll have an entire single album's worth of songs in the library, but iTunes will list the artist as having two albums in the library rather than one, and this will be reflected in cover flow, showing the same cover art twice in a row.
All the song info matches up...how can I fix this?

Check a few things:
Make sure the SORT ALBUM is the same for all copies, also make sure that all tracks of the album have the same disc numbering. So if one set is "Disc 1 of 1" make sure the others say the same thing.
Those are the most likely culprits, but go and compare the "two albums" side by side. Select Get Info, and go back and forth making sure all of the album info and album sort info is exactly the same. That's most likely your problem.

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