Importing songs in the correct order on an album

Everytime I import a cd into my iTunes library the songs never appear in the correct order they are on the actual album. I know that they are always in alphabetical order when you click on iTunes Library. But when I click on the album title all the songs are in aphabetical order instead of the correct order that they appear on the original CD. If I try to drag them into the order they should be, iTunes won"t do it. I have imported CDs on my wife's and my daughter's Macs and the songs stay in the correct order that they appear on the CDs. I have been trying to fix this problem for the last 2 years on my G5 without any success. I have checked iTunes preferences settings and can't see any problem there. Any ideas on what to try next?
Mac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

After inserting a CD, click on the header of the leftmost column (that one with the numbers). The little triangle must point upwards.
Try importing a CD with these settings.
Hope this helps.
M

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