Grid View - Weird album behavior

Hi,
whenever i try to play an album throught the Grid View using the "play album" or "play" button (on album rollover), it plays the first song and stops.
Actually i realised that if i go inside the album(double-click), the album is sorted by song order, but inverted (last top). Even if i put it back to normal song order sorting, it oftens mess up and stop at the end of fist song. Then sometimes if i try another song ( say 3rd one ), it will skip to the previous (2nd). Like if it didn't understood my resorting.
Last, even if i put it back to standard song order sorting, go out to grid view and "play album" from there it does it again, inverting the sorting.
Looks like Grid View is acting strange.
I'm starting to think that's because i imported my library from my old Mac wich had an old Itunes.
any help?
Jeff

wow.
well i just found the solution to my problem. Well i found the cause, not a solution really. All this problem seems related to the fact that i had my albums sorted by Ratings. If i sort them back by artist, it's all good!!
This is really frustrating, come on, this isn't suppose to pass Q.A. tests.
Even more, if i sort them in descending order instead of ascending, it works, but i got my favorite albums on the bottom.. i guess it's a work around.
Now also.. why did they put ratings but no options to filter by ratings? and where are Smart Playlists? Go Itunes, be more Iphoto! :P
JF

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