> I painstakingly renumber the second disk and rename the
> album field so that both discs appear to be one long CD. In
> both the tags as well as the file names.

I do this as well. For example, NIN's The Fragile is identified as discs Left and Right but for me I've numbered the tracks contiguously.

I look at the identification of the track and with regards to its location/order within a 'work' and not the partitioning imposed by a particular medium.