Audiobooks play in random order

Hi,
I am having an issue (it's quite common, according to Google), where audiobooks appear to play in random order om the iPhone, while playing fine in iTunes.
I could not find any fix or workaround on the net, so I'm wondering if anybody here knows the answer. It appears to be some kind of bug in iTunes 9.x and iPhone 3.1, as the same audiobooks used to work fine before. And no, it's not just a question of turning shuffle off.
Thanks in advance,
Nike

I've only just bought into the iPhone so I'm not sure how it handled audiobooks before but it's possible that changes in the treatment of Album Artist or the number of discs field may be causing your problems. Using iTunes 9.0.2 with my 3.1.2 iPhone I find it groups the chapters of a multi-track audiobook together and in the right order, although sadly the chapter titles have been replaced with Part X of Y.
You might find some of the techniques I describe in Grouping Tracks Into Albums useful. A workaround would be to use playlists for your multi-track Audiobooks as described in Audiobooks on iPods, or just treat them as reqular albums.
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