ITunes plays songs in the wrong order

For the past few weeks iTunes has insisted on jumping all over the place when playing songs. It plays randomly, but only from the same artist. If I'm playing an album, it doesn't go automatically from track 1 to 2, but seems to select the next track completely randomly.
I've tried sorting the songs by artist, track number, album etc. but the problem persists. Yesterday I downloaded the latest version of iTunes, but that didn't help either.
Thanks in advance for advice and help!

I use iTunes and built in look up as well and it sort my library in album order. However this is assuming you sort the library by artist (click on the artist heading to sort by artist). And then within artist is will sort by album name alphabetically and within each album by album order.
Just checked and if I sort my library by album, albums get listed in alphabetical order but again, within the album it is in album order.
Grace Notes (CDDB) should fill in the track number and total number of tracks for you automatically.
So back to your last question, I am not sure what you mean exactly. Are we talking about sorting the library as a whole or do you mean specifically within Playlists?
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And here is a "get info" view of all the tracks on this album:
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