Burning MP3 CD by 'Album by Year'

I can burn an MP3 CD with folders for each album. However, the album/folder order is alphabetical. I tried burning by 'Album by Year' a new feature in iTunes 7 however it does not create the folders necessary for easy navigation on a car MP3 player.
Any ideas?

Hi
All my tracks are MP3.
In List View, I do not have an Album column I have an Album by Artist column. If I click on this column the albums look right in the playlist on the screen but when I burn to the CD the tracks are not in one folder per album instead they seem to be in folders per Artist then Album, which as one of the albums is a compilation has created about 30 folders.
If I switch on the 'Sort by Album' column it burns the disc as I expected.

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