Songs show up as separate albums

The album titles may not be identical. Try this:

First select Music under library on the top left of iTunes. Then go to "View > as Grid." Find an album that should be the same but is listed twice. Highlight the first album, then go to "File > Get info." Go to the "info" tab. Highlight the album name then select "Edit > Copy." Click ok.

Now highlight the second album. Select "File > Get info." Go to the info tab. Highlight the album name and select "Edit > Paste." Click ok.

If there is more than two listings for albums that should be the same, paste the album title into those as well.

This will merge songs from the albums under a single album. You can then sync these changes to your iPod.

I'm not exactly a 'newbie' but I can't crack this one. Similar problem. Grid display in iTunes & on my Touch is fine, but 'Cover Flow' in iTunes shows some albums with multi-covers. Nothing I have tried has solved it, so I just use grid for the display, which in many ways I prefer.
It would be nice to sort it though!
By the way Davy, can't follow your advice with the options/steps you describe. Don't know if Ibabus can!

Davy's instructions are accurate, but I prefer to change all the tracks at once to be sure the info is identical. Also, artist names (or at least album artist names) also need to match for cover flow to work properly.

Try this:

From list or grid view, pick all the songs that should be part of one album (you can select multiple songs by holding the command key while you click on a mac, on a PC it's probably CTRL + Click or something).

Right click (ctrl+click on a mac) on any of the selected tracks and hit 'get info'.

From the window that pops up, click the 'info' tab.

Change the artist (or album artist for a compilation), and album name to whatever it should be for all the tracks (for album art, change the album art on this step, although beachboy your problem may also be artist of album name).

You can also do all those steps before importing a CD to save yourself some time later on.

I think you can have different "Artist" names, but if you have more than one "Album Artist" name, you'll get different albums with the same name. You can use something like "Various Artists" in the "Album Artist" field.

When you check the info of the individual "albums" which should be in one, what happens if you delete the artist name in each one? It may be seeing each artist with an album of the same name.