Putting songs together as albums

hello
i just upgraded to itunes 7 and there i can subdivide my songlist into showing whole albums to make it more clearly arranged (sorry, badly expressed)
but the program refuses to let appear certain songs in the same album column, even if i rewrite the tags of the files.
so for example i got 3 songs by singer A but one of them appears under "unknown album", the others appear under the album they are actually from. i can change the tag of the other one but it refuses to appear with the others.
how can i group them all together?
with some other artists it just works...
thanks

i have checked the info on the files so i am sure that the album info is the same on every song.
Are all the songs from the same album?
A spelling or punctuation mistake, or sometimes a trailing space usually causes this after the artists and/or song name, which fools the iPod into thinking that there are two different artists or songs so you end up with multiple copies. The trailing space is the hardest to spot.
Best way to cure this is to go into iTunes, highlight that artist and/or songs, right click on them and select "get info".
This brings up the multiple song info window. If you see the "artist" field is left blank, then there is a discrepancy with that name.
So to correct this, in the artist or song box retype the name, as you would like it, and then click ok. You should do this even if no mistakes are immediately visible.
Re sync this new artist/song info to your iPod.

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