Problems with "Various Artists"

Hi I have a 2 disc album that I want to list as "various artists" it's easy with first disc as there are 3 or 4 different artists on that CD that when "Compilation Album" is ticked come up as "VA" however the 2nd CD is all the same artist (Blank & Jones) so of course that will be filed under "B" I have selected all of CD 2 and ticked "part of a compilation" but this does not work, i could fudge it a bit by putting a space in one track but i'd rather not do that, so any help welcome I am using 10.6.2.35 within Win 7 U 64bit.
All1

Well i have been able to solve this and just thought i'd post back in case it helps someone else, as i say i have an album (Double CD) where the first CD is all "Blank & Jones" and the second CD is all "Blank & Jones" but 2 tracks, now marking both of them as part of a compliation did not solve my problem, you see i wanted them both to come up as Various Artists this would not work with CD 1 unless i changed the artiists name from "Blank & Jones" to "Various Artists" which of course is not right.
However just playing around the other morning i highlighted whole of CD 1, right click/get info/ of course it showed Artist as being "Blank & Jones" but i put "Various Artists" into the Album Artist section (2nd one down) and applied and it worked, it turned that album into Various Artists in my line despite all the artist being B&J.
I know i know it's old news to 99% of you but it was new to me so hope it will help others.
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