How does Illustrator allign and distribute work

Hi
I am trying to understand what is happening behind the align and distribute functions in Illustrator.
I am working on a PC with Illustrator CS5
I have taken a photograph of a stone wall in to Photoshop:
Converted it to grey scale
Reduced it with levels to black and white
Then selected the black and converted the selection to paths.
Exported the path as an illustrator
Imported it to Illustrator ( I know I could trace it in illustrator but I prefer t work this way round).
All objects are un grouped and on one layer in Illustrator.
Select all objects
Open the Align pallet
Set Align To Artboard
Apply distribute Horizontal Center
Apply Distribute Vertical Center
The objects are distributed across the Artboard
Select all objects
Horizontal Align Center
Vertical Align Center
Apply distribute Horizontal Center
Apply Distribute Vertical Center
The arrangement is different
Do the same exercise with 15 circles of the same size and a similar redistribution happens.
What is determining or influencing the re ordering?
it does not seem to be size or the layer order.

Thanks to everyone who has replied to my question.
Some interesting information and comments.
I am still unsure as to what logic Illustrator is using. I can understand that layer or other orders might effect the order. I started thinking about creation order and if this is different to layer order. So I exported my dots test file as .svg so I could look at this. I then re imported it at the distribution was more predictable. If I align to bottom, left then distribute h and v I got a diagonal line of dots. This is what I would have expected to get. I still need to test this out more.
before svg
after svg conversion
My main problem is that if I am going to use the distribute I need to know and understand what it is doing.

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