Order of songs on compilation albums

Hi there!
I've just started to use iTunes as my mp3-player, and I'm quite satisfied. I really like the grouped with artwork feature. The only thing bothering me is that;
1.I want my songs in alphabetical order by the artist, but within the artist I want the albums sorted by release-year, not alphabetical. So I was wondering if there were any way of controlling this. This isn't a big deal though.
2.But my biggest problem is that my compilation albums(soundtracks and what have you not...) are sorted alphabetical after the artists on the album rather than the song number, even though I've checked the box for compilation album. Now, certain of these albums need to be played in the right order for it to make any sense, so could somebody help me here please!? (Oh, by the way; I've named all the songs' "Album Artist" the same as the album and sorted my playlist after that, so I get them all in one group...)

see this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11073889&#11073889.
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