Organizing My Music By Tracks

I'm having trouble getting my CD's that I import on itunes to stay in order from 1 to however many tracks are on a CD. It will have like five or ten in a row and then another cd from the same artist will be in-between the rest of the albulm. PLEASE HELP SO ANNOYING.
Thanks
Dell Windows XP Pro

Follow this link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/6.0/en/560win.html
It describes how in iTunes to sort your music by different "columns," this should definitely help you.

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