Help!! All my songs are in the wrong order!

I don't know why this happens, but I just added album art to an album that was in iTunes (ripped from 2 discs using an outside program), and then of course iTunes "couldn't find the original file". The location and filenames of the MP3s did not change, really only the modified date and the addition of the album art. But okay fine, I removed the 2 discs from the library then imported them again. Now here's the problem: the tracks are no longer ordered from 1-15 as they were. Now they're completely random, and I can't force iTunes to put them in the proper order!
Please help me get this fixed, it's driving me crazy. Makes me want to pull my hair out. I just can't understand why this happens and why I can't make iTunes put the songs in the track order. Shouldn't this be the secondary sort criteria when you sort by album?
This has been happening to me ever since iTunes 7 was introduced, and my previous posts asking for help went unanswered. I can't figure out any other way to even try to get help with this, so please someone at least snowball some ideas, cuz I'm clean out by now.
Thanks in advance!

Thank you for the reply. I have actually done all these things. I am very specific with my tags, probably to the point of being anal about it. I'm in the habit of selecting all the songs of an album and setting the fields that should all match at the same time. This usually includes the album name, genre, album art, gapless (if applicable), and the number of tracks (the track "of" field), though not always the artist. Many of my albums are compilations, and these seem to have the problem more frequently.
However, I do have an example of a single-artist album that this happened to, Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails. Here's a screenshot showing how this appears in my Library:
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And here is a "get info" view of all the tracks on this album:
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The album that prompted the post this morning got me so frustrated that I unloaded my own MP3s from iTunes and re-ripped the discs with iTunes itself. I don't like doing this, but it seems to be the only way to make the tracks appear in order.
I'll supply any other information you may want in relation to this problem, I'm very motivated to get this fixed.
Thanks!

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