If you're an iTunes master user, you'll probably say "well, duh!" to this hint...but if you're like me, it might save you some frustration. I was doing some work on my library over the weekend, and had my collection sorted by Album. As it turns out, there are three albums named 'Home' in my library; when I reached this section, the sort just looked awful--the artists were in a seemingly random order, not grouped by album title.
First I tried changing the sort to Album By Artist, but that didn't work -- it actually sorts by artist first, then by album, and I needed the main sort to be by album. After some fiddling about, I discovered that if I coded the artist of each Home album into the Sort Album Artist field on the Sorting tab of the Get Info (Command-I) dialog, everything worked: sorting by Album now groups the artists by album within the 'Home' section.
Apologies if this was obvious to most of you, but it wasn't to me, and reading help didn't make things any clearer.
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100227063728381