Sorting by artist does not update (iTunes 11 only)

Question

I never should have updated to iTunes 11. I've had nothing but headaches since I dropped 10. Most of them are bearable, but one has me completely boggled.
When I did the update, iTunes tried to outsmart me and played around with my Artist info on some of the tracks where I'd changed that field. I don't know why it did that since I'd changed the field on purpose to make sorting easier, but whatever.
The problem is that when I go back into the track's info (using iTunes' "Get Info" or just by editing the field directly in the grid view), iTunes steadfastly refuses to re-sort based on the new value.
For example, I've purchased the Sweeney Todd soundtrack. One of the tracks, "Pretty Women" originally listed "Alan Rickman & Johnny Depp" as the artist. While this is kind of sort of correct (they're just performers, not the artist) it at least put the track in the appropriate place when sorted by artist - midway through the "A"s.
When I go in and change the artist to Stephen Sondheim (who actually wrote the bloody thing), the Artist value does change, but no matter how many times I re-sort by artist, the track still sits in the middle of the "A"s. I've restarted iTunes, restarted my computer, synced with my iPod, everything I can think of, and that track (and any other track I change the artist on) still sits there smilling and thinking that it still says "Alan".
Has anyone else seen this happen and (more importantly) has anyone found something approaching an answer?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Of course by posting the question I was destined to stuble on the answer. Get Info, Sorting, and update the Sorting Artist field. Please raise your hand if you think this is a mind-numbingly Microsoftian thing to put into an Apple product. Now I'm going to need to go through my entire bloody library removing the "Sorting" fields just so I can get iTunes to remember the alphabet. Why not sort by what it says in the matrix by default? *facepalm* Jobs would be ******.