How do I sort music in iTunes when played from iPhone?

Okay, so I've been using my iPhone to basically carry music around and play it on different computers, right?  Just turn on manual sync and then I can play music on iTunes straight from my music library without needing to have it in my computer's iTunes library.  The problem is that all the music is out of order, and the column headers at the top that should be clickable to choose how you want the music to be sorted are all greyed out and unclickable.  What I want is for my music to be sorted by Album Title followed by Track Number.  Used to be that it was sorted by Artist then Track Number, which usually ended up okay as long as the album only had one artist.  But recently, iTunes just completely arbitrarily changed itself to sorting by Song Title, which is screwing everything up.  Since the sorting order can obviously be changed, how do I get iTunes to sort the music from my iPhone in a sensible fashion?

Here's an article about synching (moving your music) with a new computer: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527

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