Album's song order not kept

Hello
I imported lots of songs into my itunes library from various sources (itunes store, CD's etc.) This way, songs from a specific artist, and sometimes from a specific album, could come from different sources.
Now, I try to arrange all the songs from a specific album to appear in the appropriate order, but I just can't find a way of doing this! The songs just appear in the way itunes sorts them, without any relation to the original order of the album. Even more, in the ipod, the order changes once again with no appearant reason!
How can I sort the songs in the album according to the proper order? I don't want to use a special playlist for each album.
Thank you in advance for your replies
Zak.

Not sure, but does the ipod not sort by track number first? If you edit the properties of the mp3 file, and put in track numbers, the songs should be displayed in that order, I think.

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