Automatic ordering of tracks

My Music folder contains artist/album folders that contain track files in their original album order. When adding to iTunes the track number seems to be stripped fom the title and the files are added to the library in alphabetical order. This doesn't happen when importing from cds.
Any answers?
'Keep itunes music folder organised' is ticked

Hi Katie,
Click on "Library" and then you should see some columns on the top of the window, just like "Name", "Album", "Time", "Genre"... Just click one time over the "Album" column and all your songs will change to the correct order...
Hope it helps.

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