Addressbook sorts coporate on first name

Hi,
In UWC, coporate members found through the addressbook search are not sorted by their Lastname, but by their Firstname.
This is quite annoying when you have a long list and you try to find somebody you most probably only know by Lastname.
Test:
use UWC, use Addressbook tab, search the coporate addressbook with a string that return more than one entry (like *).
Can I change the sort order or is this a bug?
Thanks
Fran�ois

Right...no I did not (I have many JES docs to read and only one life).
I figured to change logos and colors by fiddling around. I thought the custom. guide was about this. I never suspected one could change the code of uwc which I suspected would be into compiled jsp somewhere. If I can: great !
I will look for it in the doc. Thanks Jay.
Fran�ois

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