The/a/an in Library sorting

Hi,
I recently downloaded the latest itunes update. During installation, I chose French as the language. Today I noticed that the songs were no longer sorted disregarding the/a/an in the Artist name (ie The Rolling Stones, The Beatles etc are now under 'T', not 'R' or 'B'). I thought this must be because it was in French, so I changed it back to English. However, 'The ...' is still sorted under 'T'. I'd really like to change it back but I can't work out how. I don't know whether this has been caused by the itunes update or by having it in French. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Jesse

In the Finder type Cmd-Shift-G
Paste this line and hit Go
/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources
Open folder French.lproj.
Open file SortPrefixes.plist in TextEditor.
Add the prefixes to the list in alphabetical order.
You need to have Administrator Rights to save the file.
It appears that not all Nations are equal:
!http://web.mac.com/wyodor/_Discussions/iTunesSortStrings.png!

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