Custom Page Size list...can it be re-ordered?

As a service provider I must get asked this question two or three times per week. I'm hoping someone has figured this out as it seems to be a pretty common complaint.
When you create a new custom page size the new size gets added to the list in a completely arbitrary manner. I'd hope that they would get added in order of creation date, or grouped based on dimmenstion, but it seems completely random. Is there a way to fix this, like a preferences file to hack?
Cheers,
Eric Bullock
Mac Business Solutions

The file that the pages sizes are kept in is:
(user)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompapers.plist
There may be some plist editors out there that will help (Pref Setter?), but that's the file you'll want to edit.
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