Custom Brushes

I've downloaded and installed a bunch of free custom brushes from the Internet along with a few brushes I made. It is often difficult to know what the free ones will look like until fully installed.
I am looking for a way to select a bunch of them and delete them from my brush list. So far, I am only able to delete one at a time. I tried shift-clicking and Control-clicking to get multiples, but no luck. Any suggestions?
I'd also like to reorganize them so my favorite texture brushes are in one group and all my rough brushes in one group of brushes. (not physically a "group", but just placed side by side in the list). Is there a way to click and drag them around inside the list?
Lastly, It would be nice to color code my favorite brushes or brush styles, similar to the way you can color code actions. Is this possible?
I am working towards cleaning my brush set up and saving them to a brush set I can save and recall. So far, I am selecting a brush I like, then clicking an open spot at the bottom of the list and letting PS add the new brush with a new name. At that point, I am deleting the old one out of the list.
Any advice would be appreciated.
M. Jackson

I have about 400 brushes sets in my Presets>Brushes folder.
When I go to Preset Manager in an attempt to install one of those sets, the resulting list only shows the set numbers through the letter B.
How can I see the rest of them?
I don't want to install all of them at one time, I just want to be able to choose all of the sets.
How can I do this? I already have Presets Viewer so I know which sets I want to load, I just can't see them in order to load them.
Thanks in advance!
Linda
Edit added 10/22
One workaround that I have considered is to load all of the ones that I can see, remove them from the presets>brushes folder, load another batch, remove those, and so on.
Will removing them from the presets>brushes folder cause them to disappear from the available brushes in Presets Manager?
The downside of this is, of course, having way too many brushes to look through.
Alternatively, perhaps I could creat subfolders in Presets>Brushes, one for brushes starting with numbers, one for brushes starting with A, etc?

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