Sorting Library by Album Name

Just upgraded to iTunes 7 - I am unable to sort my library by just Album name. When I select available columns it has one titled Album but when I choose it shows up as Album by Artist. The impact is that any album with multiple artists will not sort correctly. Can anyone shed some light on this topic. I just want album name back.
itumes 7 Windows XP

Just hit the header til it says "Album"

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Message was edited by: Rollersnake

OK, putting something in the Album Artist field for the album fixed it.
Near as I can tell, the track info for the album was inconsistent when I downloaded it, and though I deleted the "album artist" field for the whole album, more than once even, it somehow still registered as being different for that one track. Now when I delete the field for the whole album, it stays in order regardless of sorting method.

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