Added songs go in alphabetical order

Hi everyone,
When I add playlists, albums, songs from my external hardrive to Itunes it is in the order I want. But then I synch the album to my iphone and my iphone adds the songs in alphabetical order and I cant move the songs around like when in a playlist. And I want the order intended. Does anyone know how I can rectify this?
Thanks
Eirin

ridin gaijin wrote:
Thank you tt2 but it's not a playlist..
but you also wrote...
However, on all my playlists, Pala Tute appears in the middle of the album, in alphabetical order, between My Companera and Raise the Knowledge.
which is why I brought it up...
Do all the tracks of this album have track numbers? If not, an alphabetical sort by track name is the "correct" iTunes behaviour. Sorting any view in iTunes as *Album, Album by Artist* or *Album by Year* should put the tracks of an album in sequential track order, ascending or decending depending on whether or not the little black triangle in the column heading is pointing up or down. If this view does not give the correct sequence in iTunes, or the track order is wrong on an iPod, then look for problems of consistency with values, esp. capitisation in the album, album artist, artist, sort album, sort album artist, sort artist fields or the disc X of Y labeling.
If these are mp3 files check that they only have a single ID3v2.3 tag. iTunes sometimes does funny things with files that have multiple tags (e.g. both v1.x & v2.x tags) - displaying information from one version of the tag, but editing (or perhaps even sorting?) using another.
tt2

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