Some albums on my iPod have their songs in incorrect order

I guess I’m just old school. I like to listen to my music in the order that it appears on the album. Almost all of the albums have the songs in the correct order, but few do not. In particular, Today was listening to American Idiot (Green Day), what should be the third song has been placed way at the 8th position. In fact the song order for this album as played on my iPod is 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 3, 6, 8, 10,12, 13.
I have verified that I have the latest iTunes and iPod firmware. I have my iTunes set to keep my music library in sync on my iPod (“Manually Manage music and videos is NOT checked) .
Here is a partial list of things I have already tried
• I have made sure that the music is sorted first by Artist, then by Album, then by Track number in iTunes.
• I have verified that the order is correct in my iTunes music library and the music library’s shadow in the iPod within iTunes
• I have done the 5 R’s
• I have switched to Manually Manage, deleted the offending albums, synced, re-added the albums, WATCHED THE SONGS LOAD IN THE CORRECT ORDER, just to find that they are still listed in an incorrect order when I look at them in my iPod.
Someone please help me and tell me how to fix this.
PC   Windows XP Pro  

The Cloud by the song indicates that is is an iTunes purchase but it is not downloaded on the iPod. If you only want download iTunes purchases to show in the Music app go to Settings>itunes and pp Store and turn off Show aLL.

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