Play Order on Album Sort by Year Funk

I was super pleased to find that iTunes 9.01 fixed the bug regarding sorting multi-disc albums while sorting album by year.
However, now I'm noticing that when I'm playing an artist's discography, while sorted by year, instead of playing the albums in chronological order (like they've been visually sorted), it plays the albums in alphabetical order (default sort). So I could be playing an artists' first of five albums, but if the album name starts with a 'Z' then it will just stop the playlist all together, as if the end of said playlist has been reached.
Also, does anyone else who sorts by year find it annoying that iTunes finds it prudent to always switch back to sorting by album alphabetically whenever I'm not looking? I find that quite annoying.
Any ideas? Thoughts? Thanks!

Oh poop. I just updated the two extensions "I Love Stars" and "Cover Stream."
I'm no longer having problems with my music stopping after 'all' of an artists' music plays 'all' through. But still, anyone else having similar issues?
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