Songs not being grouped into one album/artist!!!

Ok, so just as an example... I have this one CD - American Idol 2 All-Time Classic American Love Songs ... my problem is that it seperates them all into individual artists and won't group them together - which isn't too big of a problem, because I can just rename everything and make them group. The problem is, 2 of them do group! Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard's tracks are recognized as part of one album and are automatically grouped into a Various Artists category! eek! It's the only time it's happened - It doesn't do that for any other American/Canadian Idol album I have! and I just can't figure it out. I tried renaming those tracks and stuff, but it just wouldn't work, it still only grouped those two seperately!

Ok and it also happens with a couple Westlife songs - I have a Misc category because they're from a couple different singles albums and I didn't want like, one song per folder! So I just grouped them all, but again, iTunes won't make ONE Misc Category, it bloody makes two!

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