Audiobook playing out of order

I have audiobooks purchased from the iTunes store and many that I have transferred from CDs borrowed from the library. Books I have transferred are suddenly not playing back in order (some of these books I have had for several years), the tracks seem to be playing in "shuffle". I have saved each book as a playlist then in Get Info/Options have selected audiobook, part of compilation,remember position, skip when shuffling and gapless album. This has worked really well until recently though I am not sure if it coincides with the iTunes update. I have 32GB iTouch (original). Please help!

Ok. I spoke with an apple representative today because I was having the same problem.
Apparently if you have used genius or smart playlist this can throw your audiobook order off. All you need to do is
#1 - Place your audiobook in a playlist
#2 - Make sure the tracks are in order in iTunes
#3 - Right click on the 'playlist' file. Press 'Copy to Play Order'.
#4 - Sync your i-Pod
If you still have problems you might need to create a new playlist and drag the audiobook
tracks into it and then repeat the above steps.
Hope this helps.

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