Songs re-organized!

Hi there, I have a 3rd Generation iPod Nano (8GB), and I used Winamp for my iPod, downloaded a few songs to it and that's it, I went on my iPod and went to "Songs" and all my songs are out of alphabetical order.
Example:
-Song with a number
-Song starting with A
(goes through rest of alphabet)
-Song starting with A
(goes through rest of alphabet, it seems like there are 3 lists with different songs, I bet they are organized by bitrate or format, etc, but can iTunes or is there any way to reorganize them by alphabet like the default is? (except for reformating or deleting all songs)
Thanks...

My personal experience on this, (and I'll preface it by saying that I just got to 67,000 of right over 102,000 songs, audiobooks and videos restored to my iTunes library) is that if you don't manually update your ID3 tags, and that's for every last song, book, or video in your library, you're going to have problems if you ever move it, or back it up and replace it with a new library file. In other words without the original library file, iTunes has to figure out all over again what is what and it does it by the ID3 tags that were in the files to begin with, even if what you had in the iTunes library was different.
This becomes painfully apparent when you import an entire drive all at one time. Entire folders get renamed, album info gets lost, start/stop points are reset, some tracks get turned completely blank (ie: name, artist, title all read "name" "artist" and "title" and nothing more) Playlist m3u's can throw things off too. I always delete m3u files before importing any folders. (Some of my older backups still have them. That's why I'm making this latest backup without them.)
I have successfully backed up 90% of my library with updated ID3 tags and as a result, rebuilding this current library is going pretty quick (2 weeks so far) except for about 9,000 songs and audiobooks that have to be added either a folder at a time or in most cases a track at a time and I have to manually input the info at the time of import or spend weeks trying to figure out what is what and where it goes.
I should be all done by mid-January, and I plan to finish off the ID3 updating before I: 1. burn this latest library to DVDs, and 2. copy it all over to another 500Gb backup drive as a secondary back up.
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