Ipod Sort Order in Itunes

Hi all;
I've had an Ipod since last Xmas and just noticed something odd.
For a long time, whenever I synced my Ipod, the content would appear (in Itunes) in Artist order (i.e., under Devices/My Ipod, the content on my Ipod would appear in alphabetical order by Artist order in Itunes).
Recently, however, it has started appearing in some sort of strange order that looks random. The "Album by Artist" column header is highlighted, but the list of songs seems to be completely random, or at least unpredictable. This has been happening for a few weeks.
It doesn't seem to make any practical difference, but it's just odd. So does anyone know:
a) Why this changed?
b) How do I change the order in which my Ipod content is displayed in Itunes?
I'm running Itunes 7.3.1.3 on Windows 2000.
Thanks.

Maybe your view options got reset? Go to view, view options, and see if Album Artist is checked. If so, uncheck?
I have a related question:
I just finished reinstalling my entire database from an external harddrive.
It used to be that -- in the album column -- for example
'64 Meet the Beatles
would appear before an album without the apostrophe and numbers, i.e.,
Beatles Assorted
is now listed before '64 Meet the Beatles.
Is there any way to get iTunes to list albums the old way?

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