Order of Imported MP3 Audiobook Tracks Problem

I buy audiobooks from audible.com and want to burn the entire book as a MP3 as my car CD player will play MP3's. Since you can't download MP3's from audible, I bought a program that burns virtual CD's on the Mac HD and then converts the CD to MP3 files. It works fine, but when I import the MP3's into iTunes to burn to CD, the order of tracks is completely scrambled. The tracks end with sequential numbers, but iTunes apparently ignores those numbers. The tracks are in sequential order when I import them into iTunes.
The last book I did had 123 tracks and it was a royal PITA to manually put them in sequential order in iTunes.
Is there any way to force iTunes to order the tracks based on the ending sequential number or to follow the same order they are in when imported?
Thanks,
MIKE

I do burn from an iTunes playlist. The problem is that when I drag the converted files into the playlist the order of the tracks is completely scrambled.
Is there a way to tell iTunes to look at the last number in the file (track) name and sort sequentially?

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