Songs in the wrong order...what ID3 version is needed for a mic

I have a zen micro and for some reason it won't read the track number for ANY of my songs so it just organizes them alphabetically...this is really annoying. Is there a specific ID3 tag version they should be in? Right now I believe they are all .0. Thanks

And by "the rest of you" you just mean you right? Because I'm fairly sure you cannot speak for the rest of the creative zen owners
Besides why WOULDN'T they make it so it plays the songs in the order they are supposed to be? If you want to listen to them in a different order isn't that what the random feature is for?
Or what about those cd's that are MEANT to be played in a certain order? As in each song leads into the next...
If people just download a few songs from the internet then how would this even affect them? They would have to combine them into a playlist anyway and therefor the track number wouldn't even matter!
The point is, it was dumb not to include it because it's easier for the people who won't use it to get around it then for people who do use it! If you don't want to hear them in the exact order they were meant to be heard in then hit the random feature (duh) but for me to go through my entire music collection and edit all the ID3 tags would take hours and is extremely inconvenient for me...

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I use iTunes and built in look up as well and it sort my library in album order. However this is assuming you sort the library by artist (click on the artist heading to sort by artist). And then within artist is will sort by album name alphabetically and within each album by album order.
Just checked and if I sort my library by album, albums get listed in alphabetical order but again, within the album it is in album order.
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Thank you for the reply. I have actually done all these things. I am very specific with my tags, probably to the point of being anal about it. I'm in the habit of selecting all the songs of an album and setting the fields that should all match at the same time. This usually includes the album name, genre, album art, gapless (if applicable), and the number of tracks (the track "of" field), though not always the artist. Many of my albums are compilations, and these seem to have the problem more frequently.
However, I do have an example of a single-artist album that this happened to, Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails. Here's a screenshot showing how this appears in my Library:
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And here is a "get info" view of all the tracks on this album:
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