ok. i had a play and have made a solution.

The music player on the nokia 770 seems unable to read track numbers from mp3 id3 tags. Listening to albums in alphebitcal order is no good, so I wrote a playlist generator in python. It runs on the nokia 770, though will need a terminal installed. If you copy the maemo-playlist.py folder to the mmc card with your music on it. Then run
then it will generate an .m3u playlist for each album it finds, with the track in the correct order. (WARNING it does not check for the existance of .m3u files, so if you had some named after albums already they would be over writen)
http://tygier.co.uk/linux/code/maemo...ist_0.1.tar.gz