Weird question: how do invert the iTunes library (front to end)

My entire iTunes library was recovered using a program called iPodCopy which moves music from my touchwheel iPod with dock connector (3G?) to iTunes. the problem is that it switched the order of my entire library. i can't listen to albums in order without making a playlist for each album (7000 songs in all). this is annoying and i want to flip iTunes "intuition" from bottom to top. i am not sure how iTunes decides what the order should be.
also, playing music in reverse would be an option but that sounds unlikely.
thanks,
michael
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7) iTunes 6.0.5

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