Songs don't appear under their artist in the 'artists' menu.

I've updated my Ipod to find that when I go into the 'artists' menu to look for my songs they are not all there, some are missing, even though they all defnitley have artist names attached to them in Itunes. I can get to them through the 'songs' menu and 'album' menu, but they do not appear under their artists.
e.g
I added the 'Blink 182' self titled album and the only songs that appear under the artist 'Blink 182' are 'The Fallen Interlude' and 'Asthenia'. The other songs on the album did not appear. However I can access the other songs seperately through the 'songs' menu and also through the 'album' menu.
But Its really frustrating not being able just to go into 'artists' menu and access all my songs from that artist like I used to be able to do.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks for reading
Craig Fraser

Hmmm, your situation is a little different than the bug I know about. Here is the bug I know of...
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2926406#2926406
Perhaps it is somehow related to yours.
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I understand that you are having issues with your music displaying correctly. This may be an issues with the metadata stored within that song, and iTunes interpretation of that info.
We may need to repair this. See the following resources for information:
iTunes 10 for Windows: If song titles don’t appear correctly
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH1468
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24677
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All my songs by certian artists don't appear under their names, but all their songs appear under 'all songs'

So when I search for a specific artist on my phone, say, Whitney Houston, I only see like 3 or 4 songs, but when I go to see all the songs on my iphone, all her other music is there.
I've checked my music on iTunes on my mac and I see that her name is spelled correctly for all songs and none are checked off with "skip when shuffling" or anything like that.
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I have my entire itunes library in my 160. However, when I look for certain artists on the ipod, they are not listed under the artist list. I can find the songs if I look for them under songs or albums. How do I get them to show up in artist? Thanks for any help

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