Song order in ipod/itunes

hello everyone, i have a small problem with itunes/ipod: sometimes an album won't show up in itunes with the songs in the right order, and renaming the track numbers won't change that (ex: tracks 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10 and track 5 at the end). When i upload to my ipod two albums show up instead of one. One has all the tracks in order (1 to 10) and the other one has the only unordered track in it (only track 5). how can i get these albums in itunes/ipod with the right tracklisting? thanx alot:)
mattia

Everything on the songs tags has to be EXACTLY the same. FOr example you may have 3 tracks, 2 have this as the artist
Elvis
One has it like this
elvis
In order for the 3rd track to be listed with the other 2, you have to change the e to E in Elvis. Same thing with album name, it has to be EXACT.
You can access the songs tags in iTUnes by rightclicking it and hitting "Get Info"

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