IPod rearranges song order

Hello,
My songs all appear in the correct order on iTunes according to their album track listings. But recently some of them have shown up in the wrong order when viewed on my iPod (30GB video). I've tried manually re-transferring the songs in question, but that hasn't worked. Has this ever happened to anyone, and is there any solution?
Dell Windows XP Pro

Plug in your ipod>open itunes>click your ipods music tab ( under the ipod icon )> click the bar above the column you want sorted>
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I've been referring to the UNlabeled column to the LEFT
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I'm referring to the numbers on the LEFT side as in this image:
http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/51/3053501176226988/www.info.apple.com/images/kba se/305350/305350_1.gif
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