Song sorting selections...

For some reason, when I opened iTunes the other day, the sorting category that was usually "Album" had changed to "Album by Artist"
No matter what I do I can't seem to change it back to regular "Album"...
can someone help me? I have already tried getting rid of the "Album by Artist" column by choosing what columns I view, and when I go to add columns, it only says "Album", but it keeps coming up "Album by Artist"
please help!!!

i did that... it still gives me the option of album, which is checked, however it keeps showing up as the category "album by artist", which sorts the songs by artist, and then by the albums of that artist.
i have version 7 if that matters

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