Sync problem - songs appearing in wrong order

Have been using Ipod classic with Itunes for several months with no problems.
A couple of weeks ago I connected Ipod to my PC to sync and charge. rather than just putting recently added music onto my ipod as per usual, it proceeded to transfer my full library, overwriting the version of my full library that was previously on my Ipod.
This action has produced disasterous results in that the albums on my ipod now appear with the track listings jumbled - ie. the albums are not presented in the correct song running order. The original track list for some albums are shuffled within the album.
Does anyone know what causes this and how to rectify.
I have tried resetting Ipod to factory setting, deleting contents and re-loading with music from scratch, but to no avail.
I can confirm my software is up to date.
Any help appreciated.
Message was edited by: Gary*c

I read your post, are you sure you read all of my article? Common causes of misordered tracks are case variations in artist names or album titles which while they cause the tracks to be enumerated out of sequence don't actually trigger multiple album covers. Disc X of Y numbering should be consistent across all the tracks of each disc and Artist, Album, Album Artist, Sort Artist, Sort Album, Sort Album Artist and part of a compilation should be consistent across the album.
One remaining idea that I've yet to conclusively confirm or rule out is the possibilty that where mp3 tracks have multiple ID3 tags, e.g. V1.x and V2.x, it might be the case that different processes in iTunes actually access different versions of the tags. This may also explain why some edits in iTunes fail to take hold even when it is confirmed that the required file access permissions are in place.
Which builds of iTunes & iPod firmware are you using? What formats are these files in, and if mp3 can you confirm what tag formats they contain? You'll need to use something other than iTunes as it doesn't report multiple tags.
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