Song order changed to alphabetical

Hello.
Something odd has happened. I've been using iTunes for many years, I always keep the song info nice and tidy, I always have the correct track number so they play in the right order. Today I was doing some re labeling of one album and suddenly my entire library has changed the track order to alphabetical. I have hundreds of albums, every single one has changed.
I've been through this forum and can't find any posts with the same problem.
Anyone got any ideas???

Hey Limnos, you seem much smarter than me so -- do you have any rec. for how to label all the untitled tracks that have accumulated in our iTunes library over the years? We've been pretty good about labeling songs as we get them, but we have about 5000 songs, of which, maybe 400-500 are untitled. Is there some 3rd person software that can go through, id, and properly label the names, albums, etc. of these mystery songs? Any advice?

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