Weird sort question

I'm trying to figure out why in album view some Compilations by Various Artists get sorted by Artist under "V" and then some compilations also by Various Artists or Unknown Artist get sorted after the "Z"'s or numerical titled albums.
here's example of them falling into "V"
here's example of them falling after the numerical titled albums (where i want them to go)
I've tried various sorts, but can't seem to get them fall down to the proper place. Any help would be appreciated.
TIA

"Mixed" indicates that tracks have different artists (and is greyed out because that's a display value set by iTunes). It sounds like you're not setting the "Album is a compilation of songs by various artists" flag, and/or are modifying the Artist field (which should be left as being the individual/different artists associated with each song).
When the tracks are split up and shown as multiple "albums" it means that there's no common value in the Album Artist field and the "Album is a compilation of songs by various artists" flag is not checked.
"Unknown artist" means that you've deleted the Artist value (or that none was present before) - this needs to stay as-is, which is shown as "Mixed" when the values in two or more selected tracks are different,
This is what the properties (Details tab) should look like for the ordering you want:
When updating the properties you need to make sure that all the tracks that comprise the album are selected.
Note that when the Album Artist field is not set it does not, by default, appear in the editor - to display it, click on Add Field and select Album Artist (though in your case you want this to be blank, since your aim is to group albums based on the Album value and the setting of the "Album is a compilation of songs by various artists" flag).
This is what the expanded album should look like:
iTunes will display the artist (immediately under the album title) as "Various Artists" in both cases (the variation, as you originally noted, being in the sort order) and the artists associated with each song being listed below its title.
This is the corresponding set of properties when the Artist Album value is used for grouping rather than the "Album is a compilation of songs by various artists" flag:

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