Thanks, Matt, but I'm still not getting it. If in the main library window, I change the columns in the top part of the window to show "artist" it still shows the "album artist (auto)" field contents in the "artist/album" view. I don't have album artist auto selected as a column to show in the bottom part of the window (that shows the tracks that have been selected). No matter what I do to the laptop columns, it doesn't change what I'm getting in hairstyle. I really want to get rid of those single track artists in the desktop hairstyle.
[later]
I just checked out the hairstyle in MC10, and its definitely worth the price of an upgrade. I love the ability to pre-sort by genre, my one complaint about the MC9 hairstyle. But still can't figure out the artist vs. album artist (auto) display issue).
[still later]
OK, finally figured it out. You have to edit the view in the tree under the library root. I was just editing the view at the library root level itself, which had no effect. Works the same in 9.1 or 10. So you can set up a hairstyle view that allows you to drill down by genre->artist->album in 9.1 hairstyle after all.
Whew.
Thanks again.