I put by season... but actually count by set. But that is usually seasons... though I do have sets like Twilight Zone: The Definitive Collection (all 5 seasons)... and I only count that as 1... not 5.  So I actually count by what I actually purchase.

I have Seinfeld up to the 7th Season ... and I count them as 6 (since Season 1 & 2 are on the same one).

I do not consider the whole collection as one ...

But I also do not count each disc inside as one either ...

Quoting Vega:

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By the season (or Box Set I guess).  I handle the TV box sets and the movie box sets completely opposite.  For the movie box sets I don't number the parent profile and number the children (each individual movie) instead.  For TV series I number the parent profile and don't number the children.

Same for me.

I have a few TV Series where 2 seasons were included in one set (Dream On, Spaced), those still only count as 1.

Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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I put by season... but actually count by set. But that is usually seasons... though I do have sets like Twilight Zone: The Definitive Collection (all 5 seasons)... and I only count that as 1... not 5.  So I actually count by what I actually purchase.

Pretty similar except if the 'Complete' has 'by season' child profiles available (usually available separately for example) then I'll count by season.
If seasons are split into Part 1 and PArt 2 (grrr) it will get two entries, more for ease of sorting later than anything else.

In general by season (half season or complete), respectively by box set.

Examples for counting as #1:

Stargate Kommando SG-1: Season 10, 5 discs
Sliders: The First and Second Seasons, 6 discs
CSI: NY: Season Three: Episoden 1-12, 3 discs

I count by season unless a season is split into separate releases in which I count each release.

How do you apply a collection number to an episode anyway?

I count per season. If there are two half season box sets, I put the complete cast in the second half box and rename the box set to full season. I remove the production year for the first half season boxes, because the double year from the two parts falsifies the year statistic.

The first half season boxes are only interesting for some statistics (Buy, Price). When I filtered my season, I can filtered these boxes out.

For a short time, I had the 41 friends keepcase profiles. That is terrible. Find a movie in the cast information window the these number of profiles is hard work. 

I am currently inconsistent with this. If a season of aTV show is sold in a digipack (eg. LOST, Friends), then I list it as a single item. But if it's packaged as a slip case containing individual keepcases / thinpaks (eg. Battlestar Galactica, Firefly), then I tend to create a box set profile, and add each disc as a child.

I've actually been thinking about this recently, and I want to make to more consistent, so I'm probably going to switch to a strict one-profile-per-season system. Well, except for things like BSG season 2.0 and 2.5, because I don't like having "invented" boxes which don't match what I have on my shelf.

All I have to do (I think) is copy the "watched by" data to the parent, and then delete the child, right?

If I have a box set that covers more than one season (eg. Sapphire and Steel, Jim Henson's Storyteller), then it would stay as a box containing a profile for each season, of possible.

Oh, yeah. I've recently created profiles for the individual disks in Monk season 1 (shortly before I started thinking about this), complete with cast and crew data from the credits. These profiles haven't been submitted yet (I'm waiting to get a chance to scan the covers), and the cast and crew is almost non-existent in the parent profile. Is there an easy way to copy cast and crew from four profiles to the parent? I don't want to have to re-enter it all if I don't have to...