Shuffle is whack. Not shuffling my large Mp3 collection. Advice?

I'm using iTunes for the first time. I have over 6,000 Mp3s in my library and when I try and use the shuffle mode I get five or six albums that constantly come up in the playlist (same albums each of the last three days I've tried this). There is actually that stray Mp3 that does come out of nowhere, but mostly I keep getting different tracks from the same albums. Very frustrating as my favorite mode of listening is random on my whole collection.
Could I have something checked off to make this happen? I am actually shuffling songs, not albums. I've read how some people "think" they are hearing a pattern, but I'm fairly certain having six or seven songs from the same albums back and forth is not some random event.

I'm glad you "fixed" your problem. But, dare I say, you will see that in the long run, shuffle is, how to say this....sucky?
I have my iPod on shuffle A LOT. Day in, day out....for the past six months...same songs, time after time....after time, after time. Yet, hundreds that I haven't come close to hearing....the shuffle option is very poor.
'Course, that is MY opInIon!

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