Examples of things you can already do with multiple items in iTunes:
Examples of things you cannot do with multiple items (i.e. must do these for one song at a time):
I would like to see the ability to do all of these things in a batch.
If you have a Mac, go to http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts09.php?page=1#batchsettrackssorting
That will take care of your first problem. If you have a PC, I can’t help with that.
For your second problem, just click the check box for artwork in the info box for multiple tracks, then hit return. Those tracks will lose their art.
Good tip, Paul, thanks! (I confess, I keep forgetting that AppleScript is there to make things like this possible.)
For the sake of others reading this, here’s a "permalink" to the same script in case the above doesn’t work. That site also has many, many, many other scripts for iTunes.
