ITunes 9 sorting Album by Artist shows multi-cd albums out of order now

Hello,
This has worked before in every version of iTunes I have used. iTunes 9 now lists my multi-cd albums' tracks out of order. For instance, it lists them as track 1 of disc 1, then track 1 of disc 2, then track 2 of disc 2.
It used to list them correctly as Disc 1 of 2, track 1-x and then disc 2 of 2, track 1-x, in that order. Why did they break a perfectly good thing?
I use 'list view' and sort by 'Album by Artist', anything else my my huge library just slows it to a crawl.

I'm in the same boat. I always use Album by Artist.
My work around for now is to add the Album Artist field to the library list and sort on that field. It seems to work ok.
I'm able to edit my post ok here.
I see that my solution only works if I've put in the album artist. Other wise, they go to the obttom of the list as "Unknown". This shines a spotlight where I haven't put in Album Artist so I will now work on cleaning that up.
I hope they can fix this quickly.
Message was edited by: AardvarkPrime

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