Track order different to album!

How do you rearrange the tracks in itunes? for example i have oasis morning glory album but when viewed the tracks are mixed up, even though the track listing is there in the style 2 of 10, 5 of 10 etc. this is throughout my library and i want them as they appeared on the albums! There must be a way!

If you have the album in a playlist you can click on the track ## column header and the songs will arrange themselves in the correct consecutive order.

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    Have you checked your iPod's Settings to make sure the Shuffle setting is set to Off.
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    -I used "get info" and tried typing 1 of 1 for the disc number for each song in my album but it did nothing so I changed it back to what it was, (it doesn't say anything)
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    Sorry for double posting but I wanted this to be in a different post
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    When you erase the "album artist" the track number reorders itself correctly, so I just needed to leave "artist" and delete the "album artist."
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