'Sort by' tags for music ignored?

There are some albums for an artist where I want to sort by something other than the actual album name, and so I use the appropriate 'Sort by' tag. This works fine in iTunes and I get my albums listed accordingly, but the Apple TV doesn't seem to use it and lists by actual album name.
Am I doing something wrong or is this really the case?
I've only had my Apple TV a couple of days and updated the software to 1.1 immediately, so I can't comment on what the original software did.

Thanks for the response. I am currently making a long list of improvements and issues to provide Apple with feedback, both for the Apple TV and the iPod.
Whilst I accept the point that the Apple TV has only been out for a relatively short time, in my opinion, it comes from the iPod family and is aimed at iPod users. I would expect the way things are shown and sorted on the Apple TV to be the same/similar as the iPod. For this reason I bought it, so that I could have one central store of music and audiobooks with an Apple TV set of TV shows and movies and an iPod set of TV shows and movies. This would allow me to sync easily with the iPod and the Apple TV.
There are some obvious errors in the way the Apple TV orders audiobook tracks, where the iPod gets it right. Also, why would you want to Shuffle the tracks of an audiobook?
The Apple TV is fairly simple to use and adding more preference options only affects those who want to change from the default settings. Users only have to go into changing the preferences if that is what they want to do.
There are some features of the iPod that make it easy to use in the way I want but are not on the Apple TV. There are also some features of the Apple TV that make it easy to use in the way I want but are not on the iPod. I feel that both should be made consistent with each other.
At the moment, I will need to put my audiobooks from CD as audiobook .m4b files for the Apple TV (which shows a sub-menu for album and so that it remembers playback position) and as music .m4a files for the iPod (as there is no sub-menu for album in audiobooks). This uses up twice the disc space and they have to be managed differently! For example, for the iPod I can use Sort Album field to show my Harry Potter audiobooks in series order but for the Apple TV I have to prefix the name the audiobooks with the book number.
Regards
John

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