Audiobook Problem

I've been having a problem with loading audiobooks on to my iPod. (An 80-gig video one, if it helps?) I have mp3 files that I load into iTunes, but when I try to play them on my iPod it won't play them one after the other but instead says "Track 1 of 1" and goes back to the menu after one track. As you can imagine, with three-minute chapters and having to find the next track manually each time (while filing medical records!) is profoundly irritating.
I've tried making playlists for the books, I've tried converting the files to AAC, whatever that means, I've tried setting them for gapless playback, I set them so they won't pop up in shuffle and nothing will change this. They refuse to go in the Audiobooks folder, too.
This is a recent problem; audiobook files would always play consecutively for me before, but now they don't. Anybody know why?

There is another way, create a smart playlist just for audiobook files.
Go to file > new smart playlist. Click match the following rule genre contains 'audiobooks'. Also tick the live updating box. Now make sure all your audio titles have the genre audiobooks and they will be included in the playlist. Now on your ipod set playlist to be included on the first menu of the ipod.
Now when you want to play your audiobooks you just turn the pod on, go to playlists then go to your audiobooks playlist. It's not as quick as just going to the audiobook folder (which you can remove if you use this method)but it only requires one extra click to get to your book.

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