Music library sorting keeps changing

i have my music library set to sort by "album by artist/year". i use itunes in grid view so i go back and change artist, then go through their albums. for reasons i just cannot pinpoint, itunes changes my sorting back to albums alphabetically. it is the column with the track numbers: http://i.imgur.com/jBTQE.png
i try to reproduce the error by going into the itunes store, by scrolling up and down, using the get info window, but something else is triggering it. there is no connection to the artist i'm viewing. if i set my preferred view to one artist, it works with all, but soon enough it switches back to the other column. what is causing this?
all i want is itunes to sort by my preferred album by artist/year.

I am having the same problem but research into the subject seems to suggest that we are the only ones. I can't find anything useful on this or other forums on how to resolve the problem. It is quite frustrating as I am a very organized individual. I even went through my entire library and checked/corrected all of the album year information. I also have the album by artist/year option selected in two fields ( above the album artwork on the far left and in the album field above the written name). I have gone through one artist at a time and clicked on the option which fixes it but ten minutes later I can go back and there in alphabetical again! It seems to be random as to which artists it changes as well because it doesn't change all of them just some, but to no rhyme or reason as to which ones. I am getting sick of clicking the option every time I open an artist and it's back in alphabetical. Why can't it just stay in the selected sorting order? If either of you or anyone else has figured out how to fix this please let me know, it's making me want to throw my macbook pro into something solid!

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Thanks for the quick reply... Old habbits die hard when you're a life long PC user :- ) When I was refering to the C: drive, I actually meant my MacBook internal hard drive. I'm using OS X 10.5.2.
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