Sorting on Artist

In iTunes 7.0.2.16 running on Windows XP, if you sort on artist ( in order to keep all there album’s together ) and have a soundtrack CD with each track by a different artist it breaks them all up. I have checked “Part of a compilation” in Get Info and “Group compilations when browsing” in preferences general. Is there a way to keep them together and sort on artist?
Dell Windows XP Pro

Like lmarkley, I can't seem to get my albums to sort correctly.
I want to sort by Album Artist, then by Year - this is how my CDs are arranged on my shelves - then by track running order. Is this possible? I suspect not.
So how about sorting by Album Artist, then Album - this is such obvious common sense that WMP does it by default.
If you sort by Album Artist in iTunes, however, it sorts by Album Artist, then Artist so if, for example, you take Craig Armstrong's album "As If To Nothing", you get two entries, one which contains all the tracks for which Craig Armstrong is the sole Artist, and one containing all the tracks for which the artist is "Craig Armstrong feat. such-and-such", which are then listed in alphabetical order of the collaborator.
Is that supposed to be useful somehow?
Toshiba Windows XP

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http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj87/TSchiewe/Picture1-3.png
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