ITunes Sorts Correctly, iPad Doesn't?

Question

Short Version: In iTunes, my albums show up in proper alphabetical order when I'm using custom Sort Album tags, but in my iPad, a few of the albums show up out of order.  Anyone have any ideas?
The Long Version: I listen to my music almost exclusively by genre--when I sit down to listen, I don't usually know exactly who or what album I want to hear, but I know the kind of music I'm in the mood for.  Since my iPad doesn't give me any decent way to sort by genre (I know it's in the Music app, but it doesn't fit the bill for me), I went through my iTunes library and changed the "Sort Album" tag for each track to be the genre, followed by the album name.  So, all the tracks from the "Superman" soundtrack have a Sort Album tag of "Film Score - Superman 1"; the tracks from "The Right Stuff" have a Sort Album tag of "Film Score - Right Stuff, The", and so on.  I used a script from Doug's AppleScripts to automate the retagging (though in my troubleshooting, I've redone these by hand as well.)
And this all works just fine in iTunes--albums show up in alphabetical order by the Sort Album tag.  But when I put all of these tracks on my iPad (3rd gen 64GB Wi-Fi only, just updated to 6.0.1 but the problem was present in 6.0), I find that a few albums--"The Abyss", the three "Back to the Future" scores, "Rudy", "SpaceCamp", and "WarGames"--all sort alphabetically at the end of the F's.  They've all got the same tag structure ("Film Score", space-hyphen-space, album title) as the other albums tagged as "Film Score" in Sort Album.  I've tried blowing out all of the tags and redoing them by hand with no luck.  Changed the cover art, renamed them, everything I could think of.  If I change the tag from "Film Score - Abyss" to "Falm Score - Abyss", the "Abyss" title does move to the head of the list in my iPad, but once I change it back, it drops back down to the end of the list, and to the exact same location it'd been in before.  I even tried exporting one of the albums, saving all of the tracks as new files through my sound editor, then reimporting them as a "new" title; when I added the Sort Album tag, it still sorted wrong.
I've checked this in the iPad Music app, as well as my primary music player, Track 8; both show the same sorting problem.  I've changed every single tag I could find on these tracks, with no luck.  Again, these titles do indeed sort correctly in iTunes; "The Abyss" shows up at the top of my Film Score list, but in iPad, it's at the very bottom.  Anyone have any ideas as to why iPad would sort "Film Score - Abyss" after "Film Score - Willow"?
(For the record, each time I've changed tags in an attempt to fix this, I have been making sure to remove the tracks from my iPad, then restore the new versions; I have iTunes set to only sync checked items, so when I change tags, I uncheck the tracks I've modified, sync my iPad and watch the tracks disappear from it, then recheck the tracks and resync and watch the files copy back over.)
Any help would be most appreciated!  Thanks!!!

Answer 1

Have you tried troubleshooting steps on this article?
Can't connect to the iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1368