Lr no longer sorting images by capture time

Good afternoon,
I've been using Adobe Lightroom 2 with Photoshop CS4 without any problems.
However, recently I've been having problems with the order in which LR is storing my images.
I work in Raw and always start from LR. From there I open my image in Photoshop before making any adjustments and then saving as a 16bit PSd or Tiff.
On the first save the psd/tiff file is stored as normal in LR - i.e next to the original raw and virtual copy. But now, when I return to make any alterations in Photoshop the re-saved psd file is moved to the very beginning of the Lightroom library. The box around the image is blacked out and against it it has a message '2 of 0' and the phrase 'photo is part of a stack'.
I don't understand why it's doing this and I don't use stacks purposely. I just want my images all on display, next to each other for ease of use.
All my photos are sorted by capture time and even though the files in question are of the correct time it still doesn't stop Lightroom from placing it at the top, well away from where it ought to be.
It's not a massive issue but it is quite annoying when you have thousands of images in your catalogue, and it's never done it before. I've restored LR to the default settings but it hasn't made any difference.
Please can anyone help.

Thank you very much.
I tried as suggested
> Stacking> Auto Stack By Capture Time
and that moved the psd file back into line.
I've tried opening up a few of the psd files into Photoshop and re-saving and so far so good! They're still alongside the original raw files.
The strange thing is that the sort order is/was set to capture date so I don't know why it moved it in the first place.
Thank you again. Much appreciated.

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