Alphabetizing "the" and "a"

In iTunes, sorting by song name results in an alphabetical order where if the first word of the song is "the" or "a" it is ignored, while on my iPod it is not. In other words, all songs whose titles begin with "the" are found with the T's. Is there any way to make it so that it sorts it the same as iTunes. I find it unusual that they're not the same to begin with.

The only sorting criteria that the iPod seems to use is the Sort Artist field.
The peculiar thing, at least on my 5th gen iPod, is that scrolling through Music/Songs reveals that the iPod is ignoring punctuation for sorting purposes, but is not ignoring "A" or "The". For example, the song +(Da Le) Yaleo+ by Santana appears in the "D" section, but +The Game of Love+ is in the "T" section. Also, whenever you fast-scroll past a song that begins with punctuation, the pop-up "123" shows up periodically (e.g. A-B-C-123-D-E ...). My iPod is synced to iTunes 7.3.1 BTW.

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That's just the sort order. It's displaying the media alphabetically because you have clicked on the NAME column near the top of the iTunes window.
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Ed - by sequence of numbers, are you talking about the rectangle with the arrow that sorts by track number? I've tried to follow your directions to Mona but my playlist still gets burned to CD in alpha order. driving me crazy. any other suggestions? thanks, Chris
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Over 6000 people have downladed the script to get around this after a fashion. Is it still required?

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Ozcare Allied Health Program (Heading Paragraph Sty
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