The options for automatic collection numbers are:
- Title
- Release date
- Purchase Date

If one of those fits your sorting then the answer is "Yes" (Menu: Collection -> Renumber...)

If none fits your preferences I'm afraid you'd have to do it manually.

Genres can be edited in the profile editor (opens by Double-Click onto a profile) in the "General"-tab

Automatic numbering by Genre is not possible and I'm afraid that with your sorting-preferences you'd have to constantly renumber manually.
As a workaround you may want to take Custom Collection Categories (Menu: Collection -> Edit Categories) into consideration. Here you could enter categories by genre with each category having its own numbering (which then, of course, wouldn't interfere with the numbering in the other categories).

You would be able to view all of them under all. The way they'd be listed would depend on how you're filtering them: title, purchase date, UPC, genre...there are quite a few ways to view it. I want to say that if you're filtering by genre, it takes the top genre, so if you think a movie is only sci-fi but it's listed as animation first, you'd either have to change the order or delete animation.

Quoting Rydog23:

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I would like to sort by genre, then alphabetical. For instance, I would like to group all the horror movies together alphabetically, all the sci-fi together alphabetically, etc. This is the way I have my physical collection organized as well. The only problem with DVD Profiler is that the profiles automatically assign more than one genre to most DVD's.

I think you can do this with Sort Title, which is protected from being overwritten by Invelos download.

Forget about collection numbers and just prefix the Sort Title with the one genre you prefer. I think that will do what you want. Anybody see issues with that approach?

And if you decide to do it that way, BulkEdit has a way, for example, to take Genre1 and prefix it to the title and copy it to Sort Title, as a bulk operation to get started. So you could have something like "Drama: Movie Title" in the Sort Title field. I can give you step by step instructions if you want to use this method.

Quoting Rydog23:

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This does sound like what I'm trying to do. Please tell me the step-by-step procedure. Thanks!

First of all, of course make sure to have your database backed up iin case something goes wrong. And I would suggest to experiment with just a few profiles first to get the hang of using BulkEdit.

Now my suggestion assumes that, at least initially, one of the genre fields has the genre that you want to use (say, Genre1). Otherwise, you will have to make it so.

(1) Install the plugin BulkEdit (you can always uninstall it later if you don't want to keep it loaded)
(2) Flag the set of profiles you want to work on. BulkEdit can also load whole collections, but as I said, start small.
(3) Tools > BulkEdit > Spreadsheet Edit Profile Data
(4) Checkbox the Genre, Sort Title and Title fields. Then Load > Flagged Profiles
(5) Make sure the cursor is somewhere in the Sort Title Column
(6) Select MultiCopy. In Tool1, select Overwrite Target, set start and end row, select From Title, To Sort Title and then click "Copy Column to Column".

--- At this point, you now have set the Sort Title to be the same as Title. There may be another way to do within DVDP. If so, it doesn't matter how you do this to start with -----

(7) Now in Tool4, put Regex Look For (.*), check Math, Select CSharp, select Out To Target,
and put the following in the big Replace With box (pay attention to case and type carefully):

return RowData("Genre1") + ": " + "$1";

(8) Click All. Now all the Sort Title fields look like: "Genre1: Title"   
(9) Check the result and see if it looks like you want it to. If not, click Finished to get out of MultiCopy, and just Load Flagged again to get a fresh copy of the data and start over. Nothing has been saved to the database yet.
(10) If step (8) went OK, then click Finished to get out of MultiCopy, then click File > Save Validated Changes.

Done. Exit BulkEdit. Your profiles should now have the updated Sort Titles. I always recommend run a database repair and then make a new backup (also keep the old one).

I highly recommend that you first verify that the solution works by manually setting up Sort Title in a few profiles to see if my assertion was correct. If so, make whatever adjustments to the instructions I gave you, and go ahead with the bulk update.

Keep us posted.

Quoting Rydog23:

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Thanks for the help. I wish I realized this earlier, but all I have to do is go to the Sort menu and select Genre>Ascending. This sorts all first genres alphabetically (Action, Adventure, etc.) and then sorts the movies within the genre alphabetically. Any genre I disagree with I can modify. Many thanks again to you all!

Ha! Well that is certainly the better way! 

Quoting Rydog23:

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Let's say I have 500 DVD's. Each of them are numbered in DVD Profiler with Collection #'s 1-500. Then I get a new DVD and would like to make it #250 because it belongs next to #249. I then want the DVD's #250-500 to shift down one number. Is this possible?

I think you can do it automatically.
1/ make a backup of your database if the result is not what you want
2/create new dvd as number 250 -> you have two "250"
3/menu collection/reassign collection number/eliminate duplicates

4/ verify if 250 and 251 are in the order you wish
5/restore your database if problem

Quoting surfeur51:

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Quoting Rydog23:

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Let's say I have 500 DVD's. Each of them are numbered in DVD Profiler with Collection #'s 1-500. Then I get a new DVD and would like to make it #250 because it belongs next to #249. I then want the DVD's #250-500 to shift down one number. Is this possible?

I think you can do it automatically.
1/ make a backup of your database if the result is not what you want
2/create new dvd as number 250 -> you have two "250"
3/menu collection/reassign collection number/eliminate duplicates

I am pretty sure he would still have to pick an 'Order by' option and none of the options is what he wants.