Several music albums are duplicated

I have enabled iTunes Match and synced it to my IPhone 4. After the sync completed I noticed dozens of albums are double and/or without album artwork, although they do have proper artwork in iTunes. I then decided to turn off ITunes Match and go back to regular sync. I removed all music and resynced using the USB cable. However, some albums still show up as duplicates.
How do I get rid of the duplictes?
Here is what I have tried without success:
-delete the music from iPhone and resync
-changed name of the album
-changed artist and album artist
This all started happening after iTunes Match messed up my original perfectly fine music database.
Please help!!!

You can do it manually, which can be a slog depending on how many albums you're talking about.
The main reason iTunes splits up albums is because there's a difference in the metadata contained in the files themselves, that's why they appeared OK until you moved them.
You need to select the tracks, and then choose "Get Info" by right-clicking on them. In the Info box make sure that all the tracks have the same Song Name/Artist/Album Artist etc. You should also check in the "Sorting Tab" it's safe to just erase anything entered in the sort fields.
Regards

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