grouping by TITLE

In the settings for either the style (the gear to the right of the 'Style' setting in the UI), there should be a 'grouping field'. Select your title there and it should automatically group by that field.

That's because you've got the title as a link to the node. That HTML is part of the string which is what's being considered for equality. They are not technically the same string, therefore don't group. Don't set the title to link. Instead, add a second title field; one that links, one that doesn't link. Use the not linking field for grouping and the linking field for display within the group. Set the not linking field to exclude.

This is a perfect example of how you can't have too much information in a request, since there was no way for me to know what you were doing until I actually saw it.

Ahh. What you want is a special kind of view called a summary view.

Add the Node: Title argument to your view.
Set the default action to 'summary, sorted ascending'.

Upon clicking update, you'll get the settings for the summary style; set it to the normal style, and then in the options tell it to include the record count. That should get you what you want, there.

Sorry about that, totally misunderstood what it is you were really trying to accomplish. My fault, since you did say in there.

Sorry, you ended up on the wrong style. When you set an argument to have a 'summary' there should be a summary style that appears right beneath the argument in the list.

The problem there is that you modified the existing argument rather than adding a new one, I think, because multiple arguments will stack and this view should have done that.

Here's a modification to the original glossary view that comes with Views that does what you want:

$view = new view;
$view->name = 'glossary';
$view->description = 'A list of all content, by letter.';
$view->tag = 'default';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Defaults', 'default');
$handler->override_option('fields', array(
  'title' => array(
    'label' => 'Title',
    'link_to_node' => 1,
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'title',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'title',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'name' => array(
    'label' => 'Author',
    'link_to_user' => 1,
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'name',
    'table' => 'users',
    'field' => 'name',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'changed' => array(
    'label' => 'Last update',
    'date_format' => 'large',
    'custom_date_format' => '',
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'changed',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'changed',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('arguments', array(
  'title' => array(
    'default_action' => 'default',
    'style_plugin' => 'default_summary',
    'style_options' => array(),
    'wildcard' => 'all',
    'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
    'title' => '',
    'default_argument_type' => 'fixed',
    'default_argument' => '',
    'validate_type' => 'none',
    'validate_fail' => 'not found',
    'glossary' => 1,
    'limit' => '1',
    'case' => 'upper',
    'path_case' => 'lower',
    'transform_dash' => 0,
    'id' => 'title',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'title',
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'default_argument_user' => 0,
    'default_argument_fixed' => 'a',
    'default_argument_php' => '',
    'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(),
    'validate_argument_type' => 'tid',
    'validate_argument_php' => '',
  ),
  'title_1' => array(
    'default_action' => 'summary asc',
    'style_plugin' => 'default_summary',
    'style_options' => array(
      'count' => 1,
      'override' => 0,
      'items_per_page' => '25',
    ),
    'wildcard' => 'all',
    'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
    'title' => '%2',
    'default_argument_type' => 'fixed',
    'default_argument' => '',
    'validate_type' => 'none',
    'validate_fail' => 'not found',
    'glossary' => 0,
    'limit' => '0',
    'case' => 'none',
    'path_case' => 'none',
    'transform_dash' => 0,
    'id' => 'title_1',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'title',
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'default_options_div_prefix' => '',
    'default_argument_user' => 0,
    'default_argument_fixed' => '',
    'default_argument_php' => '',
    'validate_argument_node_type' => array(
      'album' => 0,
      'artist' => 0,
      'book' => 0,
      'page' => 0,
      'story' => 0,
      'thing' => 0,
      'track' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_node_access' => 0,
    'validate_argument_nid_type' => 'nid',
    'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(
      '6' => 0,
      '3' => 0,
      '4' => 0,
      '1' => 0,
      '5' => 0,
      '2' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_type' => 'tid',
    'validate_argument_php' => '',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
  'type' => 'none',
  'role' => array(),
  'perm' => '',
));
$handler->override_option('use_ajax', TRUE);
$handler->override_option('items_per_page', 36);
$handler->override_option('use_pager', '1');
$handler->override_option('style_plugin', 'table');
$handler->override_option('style_options', array(
  'grouping' => '',
  'override' => 1,
  'sticky' => 0,
  'order' => 'asc',
  'columns' => array(
    'title' => 'title',
    'name' => 'name',
    'changed' => 'changed',
  ),
  'info' => array(
    'title' => array(
      'sortable' => 1,
      'separator' => '',
    ),
    'name' => array(
      'sortable' => 1,
      'separator' => '',
    ),
    'changed' => array(
      'sortable' => 1,
      'separator' => '',
    ),
  ),
  'default' => 'title',
));
$handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Page', 'page');
$handler->override_option('path', 'glossary');
$handler->override_option('menu', array(
  'type' => 'normal',
  'title' => 'Glossary',
  'weight' => '0',
));
$handler->override_option('tab_options', array(
  'type' => 'none',
  'title' => '',
  'weight' => 0,
));
$handler = $view->new_display('attachment', 'Attachment', 'attachment');
$handler->override_option('arguments', array(
  'title' => array(
    'default_action' => 'summary asc',
    'style_plugin' => 'unformatted_summary',
    'style_options' => array(
      'count' => 1,
      'override' => 0,
      'items_per_page' => '25',
      'inline' => 1,
      'separator' => ' | ',
    ),
    'wildcard' => 'all',
    'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
    'title' => '',
    'default_argument_type' => 'fixed',
    'default_argument' => '',
    'validate_type' => 'none',
    'validate_fail' => 'not found',
    'glossary' => 1,
    'limit' => '1',
    'case' => 'upper',
    'path_case' => 'lower',
    'transform_dash' => 0,
    'id' => 'title',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'title',
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'default_argument_user' => 0,
    'default_argument_fixed' => 'a',
    'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(),
    'validate_argument_php' => '',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('inherit_arguments', 0);
$handler->override_option('displays', array(
  'default' => 'default',
  'page' => 'page',
  'block_1' => 'block_1',
));
$handler = $view->new_display('block', 'Block', 'block_1');

BTW, adding the glossary complication to the top threw me for a loop at first. One thing at a time.

Oh, I'm sorry, this is another case of me being used to people undesrtanding imports.

That cdoe was an exported view; you cut and paste it into the 'import' textbox and it will create teh view on your system. That's how you share views across systems.

Arguments work like this:

First argument:
Is argument present? If no, 'do default action'. In this case, make a summary view.
If yes, 'filter view' -- now only nodes with a 'c' are present.

Second argument:
Is argument present? If no, 'do default action'. This is another summary view.
If yes, filter view -- now only nodes with a 'c' and that match the title are present.