ITunes song order

Hi all,
I have purchased some CD's for download from an online site and they load in iTunes in alphabetical order rather than the track order of the album. How do I fix this? Thank you.
Luke
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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yes I do have it selected when I click view options on itunes' edit. The track # then appears along with the artist song ablum time etc. in the itunes but it doesn't change it.
Once you select it in view options, you'll see that header along with album time, etc. Click ON that to sort. Any of those things you click on in your song list, track #, Album, Time, etc, that should turn blue once you've clicked on it. If it turns blue that means you've just sorted by that column.
Here's a pick, sorted by track #: You'll notice that "track #" is in blue.
http://static.flickr.com/6/68460163d63f0765d8o.jpg
Here's another pick, sorted by song name: "name" is in blue.
http://static.flickr.com/35/684601643a48e7d654o.jpg
I hope those links came out okay.
Just noticed, that was a 2 cd set, so if you sort by track #, it mixes up cd's one and two, but you should get the idea.

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