Default "from" address in iOS 6

Hey - just updated to iOS 6. In MAIL I have one email account with many aliases, which are all stored so I can use any of me as a "reply to" for specific purposes. When I installed iOS 6, it started using my least-frequently-used (my spam-only) address as my default reply-to/from address for all new messages. I can still select a better address from the list, but I'm going to forget that sometimes. I need to set the right one to be the default.
? Seems like an iOS 6 glitch, so please only answer if you think you have an iOS 6 solution.
Thanks...

[One person is me--this is what I wrote]
I have the same problem, but seemingly random cutting & pasting has addressed it... I hope... What I really care about is the default, not the ordering, as I don't have many.
I had the same problem in Mail.app on OSX, and fooling around with the same list also solved the problem.
What I did in the end was to actually have my default address in the list twice. Now it is the default, comes up first, but the others appear in a seemingly random order...

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