Audio book sorting problem

Hi,
whilst everything looks just right within iTunes, my Nano (3rd gen.) won't show the books, then chapters.
The Nano will only show all chapters of all books sorted alphabetically.
Any ideas ?
Thanks in advance,
Barb

I am having the same problem. Have you found a solution yet?
So I have a problem with audio book sorting. ui figured out how to get the audio books designated as audiobooks. However There are about 6 cd's on this particular book. I can sort the tracks via name and they list correctly chapter 1a,1b etc. However when I load it onto my ipod touch they are out of order. I noticed that itunes wants to sort by track which for each cd are labeled 1-12 then on cd 2 1-12 and so on. How can I overwrite or edit the track number order so they are always in order? Currently the track number will not let me edit it.
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