My songs keep getting out of order

I have a few albums which are out of numerical order. I just clicked on song number 1 to play it and it moved to the bottom of the list for that album. I have another album which is completely out of numerical order. I just want to get the tracks back to the way they should be.

For a fuller examination of this topic see Grouping tracks into albums. The images are a little out of date, but the advice is still valid.
If tracks jump around when you play them then the chances are that an external program such as Windows Media Player has touched the files and iTunes is discovering changed data as it plays the file. WMP is good at removing the Disc X of Y values which can affect the order in iTunes.
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