Why are my album songs playing alphabetically?

when i scroll through my albums in landscape and press the play button in the bottom left corner it plays all the songs on the album in alphabetical order instead of the actual numbered sequence

The obvious requirement is track numbers, but assuming your tracks have those then lack of Album Artist values on a compilation album is a possibilty.
The iPod classic has an obscure bug/feature that if you use something like *Search > Artist > Album* to play an album it plays in alphabetcial order by track name instead of track number order. I can't say I've noticed anything similar on my iPhone but then I rarely use search.
See http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp for more on organising things and possible fixes.
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