Sort by Artist - Album - Track Number

I could use some help pls. I have recently reinstalled and now all of a sudden iTunes is acting stupid. I want to sort by Artist -> Album -> Track Number. What is happening is it's sorting by Artist -> Album but the Track Numbers are backwards (listed 10 to 1).
Before you say it, it is NOT a tag issue!! I just spent the last two hours staring at a single album. Every instance of artist/album artist/disk x of y/year/genre/etc/etc are IDENTICAL. Every instance of everything that is not unique is absolutely identical!!
As a side note...does anyone know why Apple refuses to fix the bug in iTunes where mouse wheel scrolling has never worked?
Thanks...

Click on the Artist album header.
In the right side of the Artist album column header is a small triangle.
Click it so it points up. This will sort the albums track 1 thru track 10.
If the trianlge is pointing down, it will sort track 10 to track 1.
I click Artist with the arrow DEscending.
It's a triangle, not an arrow. The top of the triangle is smaller and the bottom is larger, just like the sort. Or vice-versa.
This used to automatically sort each Album under each Artist and within each Album the Tracks would be sorted numerically (1->10).
No, it has never worked as you suggest.
Ascending sort
Descending sort

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After lots of attempts, I think I've found the solution that solves this problem (is it a BUG of the ipod software last update?).
PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
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For some albums, ipod seams to be not able to sort songs by track number, no matter how you order the tracks through itunes.
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SOLUTION
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See http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp and http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/audiobooks.asp for more info.
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Sorting by Album: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7783/picture1qj6.jpg
Sorting by Album Artist: http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4199/picture2uo9.jpg
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How to use iTunes 7 new Album Artist field
Mon, Sep 18 '06 at 7:30AM PDT • Submitted by stevebr
iTunes 7 thinks of an album by a performer (call the performer XYZ), where one or more tracks are by "XYZ featuring ABC" or "XYZ and ABC," as separate albums. In the past, the only workaround was to set the album as a compilation to avoid this, but this is an incomplete solution, and it had the side effect of the album not being classified or filed properly.
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