Including "The" in artist names when listing in I-Tunes

Is there a way to prevent I-Tunes from dropping the "The" from artists names when listing them in I-Tunes and on my I-Pod?
For example, when I scroll through artists, I don't want "The Beatles" to be listed between artists "Bass 305" and "Billy Idol", but rather within the "T's".
The problem is that I-Tunes also exports the songlists with "The..." in the artist name, which means my printed list is in different artist order, so I can't make a one to one match up. So an alternate solution would be to set I-Tunes to drop the "The" on artist names when exporting to a list.
Thanks!

Rod--
Glad it worked out for you...
I can't believe I got an answer to this question so fast.
It's kind of similar to another complaint, which is that the localizations for other languages sometimes don't include "The" any more, so people whose language was set to French or German were looking for a way to put it back. So I just made the leap from addiing it to just trying to comment it out...
you have to use the remote control to type the 3 digit # of that artist or album.
How does that work if you have more than 999 albums or artists?
It also makes me wonder how I-Tunes would handle the artist "The The"? Infinite loop?
Well, that is their address, so maybe. Seriously, though, it just finds the first "The " and puts it at the end. If you look at the lines you commented out, they're in pairs. The first is the search string and the second string tells iTunes how to replace it. So "The The" would end up as "The, The" for sorting purposes.
cheers,
charlie

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