How do I keep the order of sequentially named images from randomizing on import?

I have several thousand images that I've named sequentially and I'd like to add them to my book, so that each image takes up a single page and the images display sequentially. The issue I've been having is that the order becomes jumbled when the images are imported.
I've been importing images a hundred or so at a time using different methods. When I go to INSERT, CHOOSE and then select my files they land on the page initially in the correct order. When I change their placement to INLINE their order randomizes.
I've also tried this process with only five images and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
As a way of trying to work around this, I found that if I make a pages document with the correct order and then insert it as a new chapter, the order seems to improve. But still the image order becomes jumbled badly in some areas. There does seem to be some improvement though.
Does anyone have any ideas of how to deal with this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
One more thing: The images themselves are very similar to one another and so the only way I've been able to tell which is which for sure is by selecting it and reading it's name in the inspector. Is it possible that this is actually some kind of lag between what I've selected and the image name updating? I am working with a bunch of images, but then again, I was having the same issue with only a few images so maybe not.

The script that I used in my action is here: http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2010/09/add-file-name-as-text-layer.html
The files that I've been working with were originally exported automatically from a PDF and then renamed and resized using Automator. The names are sequential 00001  - 15000.gif but for some reason they only import in the correct order after I've run them through my PS action... Which is slow going unfortunately. I agree that it's unlikely that their appearance has anything to do with the issue. Not sure what was causing the problem, but I'd like to if anyone willing to make an educated guess happens to be reading.
The method I use to make a multipage iBook without placing each image individually is to edit my chapter template so that it's just full-page, linked, text boxes. Then I make a new chapter, grab up to 200 images in the finder and drag them on to the page while holding command. This places the images in the text box and adds pages automatically to fit everything I'm inserting.

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