Dynamic form fields collection order?

I have a basic dynamic form feild with Instances that allow a user to enter data in a Table Row then, if neededed, ADD another row/instance to enter more.
The form worls well and is processed via Adobe.com Tracker.
Tracker and the exports to .csv of the data adds all the instances of new rows to the END of the spreadsheet and tracker form responses dispaly.. In other words it seems to process the entire form and all its fields in order, ignoring any new instances, THEN goes back and begins collecting the instances adding them to the end columns of the response spreadsheet. Would be much easier to parse/read/collect responses if any new instances were collected and recorded next to the same location where the first instance occurred.
Hope that makes sense. For example if I had:
FirstName
LastName
Date
field
field
field
field
dynamic field (with otpion to add additional items/entries)
field
field
field
filed
The data collection would appear as:
FirstName
LastName
Date
field
field
field
field
dynamic field (with otpion to add additional items/entries)
field
field
field
filed
dynamic field extra entry 1
dynamic field extra entry 2
dynamic field extra entry 3
But I would prefer is to appear as:
FirstName
LastName
Date
field
field
field
field
dynamic field (with otpion to add additional items/entries)
dynamic field extra entry 1
dynamic field extra entry 2
dynamic field extra entry 3
field
field
field
filed
... with the dynamic new isntances collected and recorded adjacent to each other. Doesnt seem like much until you have a long form with multiple new instance form options and all new instances seem to be arbitrarily thrown onto end of collection spreadsheet.
Many thnaks!

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http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p52549088/.
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"noosachic" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:em05ba$eil$[email protected]..
>I have a nice form set up in flash. I can enter text in
the fields, but as I
> tab from the first field to the next, I end up on text
in another area of the
> page before tabbing again to land on another field, then
when I tab again, I
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text elsewhere, then
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I would like to have is
> name, company, email, phone, message. What I'm getting
is name, off the form,
> off the form, company, email, message, phone. Please
tell me what I'm not doing
> so the tabs go from one field seamlessly to the next.
THANK YOU.
>
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