ITunes automatically re-sorts movies

Hello - I'm a pretty Type-A person, so I like to have my iTunes movies sorted a certain way. For instance, I have all 4 Burton/Schumacher batman films followed by the Nolan trilogy. To accomplish this in the past, I have used the "sort" fields. However, recently, it seems that after closing and re-opening, iTunes ignores those sort fields. The Dark Knight movies are back with the D's. The funny thing is, when I get info on these movies, everything I put in the sort fields are still present, so I just hit okay, and iTunes sorts the movies back to where I had intended.
While this is a minor thing in life - my Type A'ness is making this a HUGE thing.
Any suggestions?
MBP running 10.9.1 and iTunes 11.1.4.

Hi ... same thing for me, for the last week or so iTunes on my MacBookPro has started redownloading apparently 'random' albums again despite songs being present in library ... sometimes it will start redownloading more than 100 tracks, and it moves the old files to the Trash. Does anyone know what is going on, and why this has 'suddenly' started happening?

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