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I can't seem to reproduce this. It's possible I just don't have all the same settings set that you do. Any chance you can make a small backup that demonstrates this problem? I'm going to keep trying.

Thanks,
Mike

My first reaction to this is that I can no longer reproduce it myself (the symptom disappeared after I used the collections editor).  

And in fact, I can't reproduce it fully, but I did see something very strange.  If I look at that collection, it's sorted properly with articles ignored just as they should be -- but I just tried creating a new collection in hopes of testing the deletion problem, and I noticed that the quick select letters in the right margin of the editor go from A-H, then ET, then T, W, HO, then I-S, then TO, IR, LO, TR, V, WA and Z.

I'll be happy to make a backup and get it to you, but my regular backups (without audio files but including settings) are approximately 1.4 Gb.
What's the best way to share a file that size?