ITunes Library Out-of-Order

Version: iTunes 7.5
At first, when I imported music files, they would always group together in order of tracks on the CD-just as I liked and wanted them to be. Now, my library completely changed and is all in alphabetical order and tracks from different CD's are mixed. How do I get it back to how it was?
P.S. - Under the Get Info in every file there is a track number and disc number...
Message was edited by: jess33214

filter by artiste or composer or album instead of by name.

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