Album songs out of order

I downloaded an album by Rick Wakeman that is a story and the songs have to be in the order on the album, but the download put them in 3, 4 ,1,2 order. I tried deleting them out of my playlist and adding them back in reverse so the the last one added would be the first one on the list, but no luck. I've also tried the 'part of a compiliation' checkbox. The list is sorted in descending order by date added, so they are together, but in the wrong order. How do I get them in the correct order by track number?

Hi
There are many ways that you can sort your albums. To have your albums nicely sorted after Year - click on the Year column header:
http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/701/sortbyyearyo8.jpg
You can also sort your albums by clicking on either 'Artist' 'Album' or 'Track #'. Image example on the latest here:
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/8643/trackorderax5.jpg

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http://i55.tinypic.com/mtwf0x.png
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http://i55.tinypic.com/xmvh2e.png
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