Tracks out of order within Album... (Why?)

Why on certain albums only are the tracks out of order on the Album view in ITunes 11?
I have ensured that the Artist, Album Artist, Album, Year fields are all in sync.
for 95% of my albums this is NOT an issue.
When I navigate to the folder they are stored in using Finder I do notice that the songs out of order are in a different naming convention.
(I do have ITunes set to manage the files) <----- could this have been turned off by accident?
I have no clue how to fix this.
I am an UBER library organizer and this just plain bugs me.
Thanks for any/all help.

I had the same problem. Use GetInfo to take a look at the "info" of the tracks out of order. I noticed that my tracks had blank values in the "Disc Number" boxes. Once I filled them in, the view sorted correctly.

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Ever since upgrading to iTunes 11 I've had a problem with some albums playing tracks out of order.
I put the track number in the file names and track titles, so sometimes I leave the track number field blank. Not a problem, because iTunes sorts the tracks alphabetically so it lists them in the right order.
In album view, if I select the first track, it plays all the tracks in the right order. But if I select the album, either by double-clicking the album cover or by searching for it from the mini player, it plays them in a random order.
This makes no sense. What's going on here?

So that's an obvious solution (and what I just did in this particular case). But it's an annoying bit of extra work and, more importantly, since it was never necessary before, I have a lot of albums which don't have track numbers. Because, as I said, they always displayed and played in the correct order regardless. So the track number tag was extraneous.
What I'm wondering is whether there's a fix for this behavior.
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For one of my albums, the tracks are all out of order. I have edited the information, and the track numbers are proper, but it will not order them correctly. I have even removed the files from Itunes and then added them again--still they do not go in order. Then when I move the files onto my Ipod they are out of order, and it's very annoying. If Itunes won't recognize the track numbers, how do I reorganize them?
My other problem is manly with the Ipod. I'm not entirely sure what I did to cause this but on my Ipod, an artist is doubled. And yet when I view the songs list on Itunes (the list of my Ipod) there is only one artist. How am I supposed to fix this?
I've tried everything I would know of, and neither problems can fix. Thanks to everyone who replies.
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http://i55.tinypic.com/mtwf0x.png
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http://i55.tinypic.com/xmvh2e.png
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I order the tracks alphabetically in iTunes. I have checked punctuation, capitalization, etc, etc, etc. All seems to be ok in iTunes.
However, the tracks do not show in order in my iPod.
Why could this be??
I rename every track and start it with the composer, like
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maybe i missed something here. But heres my $0.02
you cannot change the order in the library it is true, except by sort.
you can change the order in playlists by simple drag 'n' drop.
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