How can I keep songs in proper album sequence?

Please help an old AOR geezer. I've got "track numbers" checked in my Edit>view options menu, but when I rip a CD to my itunes v4.8, the songs come out scrambled, usually to bad effect. How to listen to stuff in the right order? I know there's got to be a simple fix, but I've looked, and I'm not finding it. I didn't have this problem until recent downloads of new itunes updates. please help. Thanks

If I understand you correctly, what you may need to do it check the album information (right click on song, click "get info", click "info" tab) for the album you have loaded. If they are tracks from the same album, make sure under the "disc info" they are listed as Disc 1 of 1 and then each song should have its own track number like 10 of 12. If they are numbered incorrectly, rearrange the number to meet your preferences.
I know on one or two of my albums, when I imported them, iTunes rearranged them to a different order. I can only assume this is due to the album information iTunes has stored and when the music is imported iTunes arranged it to what they have on file.

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