Why won't iTunes group songs from a compilation album together

Most of my CDs are compilation trance CDs.  iTunes ignores the facts that they all come from the same album and groups them by composer instead, forcing me to create playlists for songs that should be grouped together.  This occurs even for albums purchased as albums from the iTunes store.  Am I doing something wrong, or is this just poor programming?

Generally setting a common Album title and Album Artist will fix things.
For compilation albums set Album Artist to Various Artists and Part of a compilation to Yes.
For deeper problems see Grouping tracks into albums.
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