Some of my albums track lists are incorrect in my iPod

I've noticed this problem with my iPod probably a week or so after I bought it. It is a brand new 80 gb iPod. What is happening is that a few of my albums on my iPod list the tracks incorrectly. I've noticed this happening with about a dozen of my albums. The track numbering is correct in the iTunes, but for some reason the tracks are just wrong in the iPod. I've double checked to make sure that every track number is correct, and it is. What makes it worse is that I'm one of those kids who enjoy albums from start to finish, in correct order.
I was wondering if this is a common occurance, or just some rare bug that I happened to slip onto. I am considering restoring my iPod to the factory default settings. But I know there must be some other way to resolve this without doing that (it takes about 10 hours just to put all of my music on my iPod in one transfer). Thank you in advance.
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I figured this out on my own just know. I cleared out all of the comments on the tracks, and now the albums list the tracks in correct order. Also if you come across this thread with the same problem, this link is a good place for more help.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=640359

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