Why are my album tracks out of order on iPhone

I have tried the suggestions from other threads as to how to fix the issue, but none of these have actually worked. My problem exists with smart playlists. They appear as they should in iTunes playlists and when you look at the playlists within iPhone when it is connected. However, iPhone simply does not recognize the track order. Is this soundling like a bug in the software?

I have a slightly different problem. I have a few artists "Greatest Hits" albums, My iPohone's "iPod" doesn't know the difference between each album. For example:
Queen's Greatest Hits, Guns 'N' Roses Greatest Hits and Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits are all jumbled together into 1 "album" this is fine sometimes gives a bit of variety, but some days i just want to listen to GNR or Queen or Alice Cooper.
The only way to do this is to go in through the "Artist's" Tab instead of "Albums" still, it is annoying.
Any help for this would be appreciated.
(sorry to distract from the original post )
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