Sort order of album ignoring track #

I am having a problem where track 9 of a specific 14 track album is listed between tracks 11 and 12 rather than between 8 and 10. I have removed and re-imported the folder at least 10 times. I have tried all of these things before re-importing:
Renamed the files
Re-encoded the files
Updated the ID3 tags of the files
Still I cannot change how iTunes chooses to sort this album. It's almost as if the secondary sort criteria were not track # but some other attribute that eludes me. This is driving me insane. I can't figure out a way to get this album to simply play in order, other than to create an independent playlist just for that one album.... and that doesn't really mesh with the way I use it.
Can someone help me?
My 20th or so Windows XP Pro

Try making sure they all have the same "album artist" field filled in. if any of them are blank, these get put at the top. or the end... i forget. also, make sure they all say, "disc 1 of 1" in the track info. that should put them in track order.
Toshiba Laptop Windows XP

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Joe Blow - CD 2
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How can I cange the sort order, so that they are sorted alphabetically, like this?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1468
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Fixing Incorrect Song or Album Listings in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ta24677
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Hi!
When I had my music collection sorted by album in iTunes it sorted all the tracks from the same album in Track order.
iTunes 7 does not behave in the same way, it sorts them alphabetically by Artist instead.
I'd like iTunes to behave it did in version 6. If I play my music collection i Album order I want the tracks to play in the correct order.
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OK, putting something in the Album Artist field for the album fixed it.
Near as I can tell, the track info for the album was inconsistent when I downloaded it, and though I deleted the "album artist" field for the whole album, more than once even, it somehow still registered as being different for that one track. Now when I delete the field for the whole album, it stays in order regardless of sorting method.

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Hello,
I always display my tracks sorted by date added, because I like to see my newest records first. This way the new "album view", with the sleeve on the left of the tracks, looks good.
Except there is something really annoying, because it is sorted by date, it seems to be strictly sorted by date, and the tracks do not show in the correct order, more in the order, seond by second, they were added to the library.
Is there a way to make the tracks show by date added, but within one album sorted by song order ?
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The link should have taken you to my scripts page, where clicking on the name of the script should have given you a file to download called SortDateAdded.vbs. Assuming you saved this without changing the .vbs extension then I'm not sure why it doesn't work. I'm pretty sure Vista should support VBScript without any extra effort, but I'll have a hunt around and see what I can find out. Perhaps there is some optional component that was excluded during your Vista install.
Ah... try this link: http://colinwetherbee.com/weblog/archives/2007/04/vbscriptnotre.html
tt2
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