Song order backwards on iPod but not in iTunes

I have already checked out the answers at
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=897265&#897265
and there wasn't anything helpful for me there (though the link from Da Gopha that may have been helpful was expired http://discussions.apple.com/webx?14@@.68b5fef1/6)
I have several playlists that despite the order they are showing as on itunes appear backwards on my iPod. This is occuring in instances with only one album in the playlist and with two albums by the same artist in the playlist.
I have a 20g photo pod and do not have the option of reloading my library as I am in the precarious position of having a 6g laptop, so only the songs that I want to import each day are in my iTunes library and all my songs live without backup (very crappy) on my ipod.
-I have attempted to reverse the order that the songs are in as show in iTunes making the last track the first to see if I could reverse psychology it as someone metioned.
-I have enabled and disabled the Keep iTunes folder organized button in Preferences/Advanced section.
-I have double checked the track numbers of the songs and they are correctly numbered, yet the 15th track plays as the first track on my Ipod.
Any help is very appreciated as I'm feeling utterly frustrated!

Try this thread:- http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6062086 for an earlier discussion of this issue. There are a number of potential causes however making sure each album title is unique and appears only once seems to be the key to clearing things up. At a guess you're going to find the same album title has been used by more than one band, changing the titles, e.g. *Album, Artist*, should help. Reset & resync isn't likely to help as this is a fault/feature of the firmware.
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