The ordering on the player is purely presentational. If you were to select the artist (ie including all the sub lists) without shuffling, you'd get the albums played in order. The entries in the playlist is presented the way they are so it's easier to use the alphanumerical buttons on the remote to 'skip forward' in a large list. There was, for the 1.0x versions, a hack available to set if you wanted this behaviour or strictly go by the ordering set in emplode. I'm not sure if this is available for the 2.0b3 version.
I think it went by the name
menusort, try a search for that.
Oh well,
did it myself... It does seem to be available for 2.0b3, and it'll probably be
integrated in the next beta to be released.
/Michael