Bizarre finder alphabetization behavior

Aside from possibly butchering a made-up word, I am having a bit of an issue. I am finding that screenshots taken in the AM are showing up /after/ screenshots taken in the PM. I thought I had correctly determined and solved this issue with the help of some advice to change the settings to XX:XX for timestamps but I am still seeing this kind of behavior with the second listed right after the other even though A obviously comes after P.
Screen shot 2011-11-01 at 04.07.34 PM.png
Screen shot 2011-11-01 at 09.44.18 AM.png
This makes it hard to find a shot just taken in the PM because it gets mixed up in front of shots taken in the AM. I use this utility quite a bit so it is something I obviously wouldn't mind tackling.
What am I missing?
Thanks.

The reason for that is that (with all due respect to it) the OS is a simple idiot. It can follow simple instructions well, but not overly complex ones. The OS has a global instruction for alphabetizing lists to start with the first character and proceed one by one to the right, comparing each file with the others in the array, and sorting in alphanumeric order. It does not look ahead to 'see' the AM or PM which appears later (further to the right) in the string.
There is a solution.
Go to System Preferences > Language & Text > Formats.
Click the "Customize" button in the Times section. You'll see this screen -
In each of the four arrays near the top (Short, Medium, etc.) click the tiny triangle in the first item, the one representing the hour. You'll see this dropmenu appear -
Select either of the third or fourth items, 0-23 or 00-23. Do that for all four of the arrays, then OK the window.
This will change the timestamp to 24-hour format, which will be incorporated into the filename for the screenshot, and this will keep those items in proper order.
Since AM/PM is not needed with 24-hour time notation, you can also remove that from the arrays if you wish.
Note - this will not change the display of the time as shown in the menubar claock. YOu can have that display 12-hour time with AM/PM. or 24-hour time without AM/PM independent of the change made above. The clock's display mode is set in System Preferences > Date & Time > Clock.
Edit - - unfortunately, files which have already been named will not be changed; only new screenshots will incorporte the 24-hour time in their naming.

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It looks like it's the feature where you're supposed to be able to double-tap the mouse to zoom into a column, but when I try deliberately double tapping the mouse it selects a word. So when I want to invoke this feature, I can't, but I can invoke it completely by accident, when I almost never actually want it. Double tapping the mouse again does nothing at all.
Has anyone had a similar problem and know what makes it happen? I'm very confused about this .
Thanks!
David

I'm somewhat disappointed by this because I like the feature in principle, but when I try to use it it won't do anything. Very frustrating and strange.
Maybe I need to give the Magic Trackpad a try. It seems like Apple is really pushing stufff that only really works on trackpads nowadays, but at the time I got my iMac a bit over six months ago, the Magic Mouse gesture support seemed to work just as well. With the new gestures I think the trackpad might really be the way to go.
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