Some songs can be found by Song Name, but not by Artist ?!

I have 3 Neil Diamond songs in my iTunes library, and all of them were sent to the iPod during syncing. Now on my iPod if I search by artist "Neil Diamond" I only see one of the songs. The songs really are on the iPod because I can find them by Song name and play them.
I tried setting the Artist to Neil Diamond in iTunes using Cmd+I and updating all 3 songs to the same artist name at once (even though they already had Neil Diamond set as the artist), but that didn't change anything.
Can anyone explaing this? It's a video iPod with s/w 1.1 and iTunes 6.0.2 (23) on OS X 10.4.4.

I was having a similar problem. I have two Ray Charles Albums in iTunes and Ray Charles is not listed as an Artist in my iPod. I turned off Compilations in the settings menu and all the artists including Ray appeared. I have no idea why but it worked.

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