Random Sorting of Songs

When I sync an album which has a correct tag (in terms of track numbers) the iPod Classic put it in random order
For instance I have tracks:
1. Chunga's Revenge
2. Bowling On Charen
3. Good Lobna
In the iPod it goes
1. Good Lobna
2. Chunga's Revenge
3. Bowling On Charen
The thing is there are albums which sync great and albums which do not

Thank you.
My question is: "How does one tell iTunes to put these tracks "back" into one album?"
CMD-I just lets me readjust the names of the file not its place in the album.
For example an album called The Best of Fred is imported to iTunes. This album has ten individual songs. For some reason iTunes then decides to have each individual song as an album or perhaps just choose to have two or three of these songs on the album called The Best of Fred but spread the remaining songs all over the iTunes library. All I want is to put all ten songs back into the album called The Best of Fred! Clicking and dragging these songs only let me put them into a Playlist or the iPhone/iPod when connected - there's no option to drag them back into an album.

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