Remembering last position

I've added the new Harry Potter CDs to my Ipod, but these consist of over 1000 1 or 2 minutres tracks.
Is there any way of getting my ipod to remember where I last finished. I ticked "Remember last position" against all, the tracks but this only seems to work on each short track
Thanks
Ainsley

I can think of two solutions.
One would be to use the program iTunesJoin (can be downloaded from versiontracker.com) to join the tracks from each CD--it will create chapter markers where each original track was. If you have 13 CD's, you could then have 13 long tracks with each track containing chapter markers for the smaller original tracks.
The 2nd possible solution would be to place the CD tracks in order in a smartlist. Make is so that the smartlist only contained the HP album trakcs, only contained tracks whose playcount was 0, and set to live update. As you listen to a track, it will automatically drop off of the playlist.
I actually combined these two solutions. Used iTunesJoin so that I wasn't dealing with 100's-1000's of tracks and then used the smartlist so that each CD/track dropped off once I listened to it. Then when I went back to the playlist, it automatically started with the first CD that hadn't hit a playcount of 0 and picked up wherever in the CD/track I left off.
Hope this makes sense. I know that it sounds kind of confusing.

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