Putting songs in the ipod in order

I want to get a certain number of songs from the same album in my ipod in order. No matter what I do, it always ends up being in the same order. If I try to make a playlist of the songs in order, and highlight all those songs and drag them to my ipod, it still imports then in the same order as before (which is out of order).
What can I do to import my songs onto the ipod in the correct order?
Dell PC Windows XP

The track/disc number might be mixed up; you can change them to the correct order by right-clicking the song to "get info" and going to the info tab. You have to do this to all the songs if you want them in the correct order.

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Then it asks me if I want to delete and sync.
I am not sure what to do for fear of erasing everything I have put on my Ipod.
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If I understand you correctly, you are trying to use iTunes to play the Music in your iPod but which is not in your itunes library. I don't think Apple design iTunes for use in your way. As to put and play music in iPod, the music has to be in iTunes first, so you play music in the iTunes music Library. the window with Ipod music is just to show you which music are already in the Ipod, in case you want to Manually Manage your huge music library.
Here is the iPod/iTunes manual from the Apple Support Site.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iPod_Features_Guide.pdf
Have A NICE DAY!

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Not sure what to do, trying to add songs and playlists to my ipod but its just not working. It keeps coming up 'songs on the ipod cannot be synced because all of the playlists selected for syncing no longer exists'. How can I get it to work?
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I wasn't sure of a title for this problem, but heres whats wrong:
I can plug my iPod into the computer and use iTunes to play songs from it etc...
I have 312 songs on my 60GB Colour iPod Photo, and I want to add more, but when I do add them to my iPod via iTunes (like i did with the other 312) they do not appear on the iPod.
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