Music not sorted corrected/not alphabetical

My iphone continues to insert songs at seemingly random places into the songs list. Everything is correctly ordered in itunes but when I manually put them onto my iphone it just tosses them in under an incorrect letter. For example the song Fire Aura is in the E section under Epilogue and above Estremoz. Any one know how to fix this problem?

Have you seen this?
I don't see some of my songs when browsing by Artist on my iPod
-Kylene

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Interesting spelling of your username. I'd always associated this type with dogs, not with hearts.
I think you may have discovered a bug (or perhaps more accurately generously, an artifact—an overlooked effect of automation).
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