The views in Media Center are designed to work with the metadata.
Before starting the rip, be sure that Artist, Album, Date, and Genre are filled correctly. Select the Enter separate info... checkbox and enter individual track artists when track artists vary (eg. soundtracks, compilation discs, etc.).
If you have albums being split into separate groups in a view, select all the tracks for the album, and ensure that Album is the same. Use the Action Window > Tag area, examine the Album property, and you'll see either a single name, or the word <varies> indicating Album is different across tracks. Enter a single value to correct, and this usually clears it up (I say usually, because there are a couple of other things that cause MC to split albums, such as an album's tracks being in different folders).
MC maintains (more than) two distinct databases: a Main library for your physical files on disk, and a CD library for CDs, DVDs, etc. You'll typically want to set the metadata for the ripped tricks (eg. via some Audio view), and not that of the CD, as the default views in MC focus on the Main database.
You can show both of these databases in a single view so that you can keep Album, Artist, Genre, Date, etc. consistent for both the CD and its ripped tracks. If you assign the correct metadata before the rip, this happens automatically. Otherwise, you can always update either/both of the Main and CD databases. I'll explain more about this if you need/care about it.
