IChat AV 4 Menu Bar Buddy List Ordering

On Leopard with iChat AV4, in the windowed Buddy List you can change the ordering under the View->Sort Buddies->(By Availability, By First Name, By Last Name, Manually). However, it appears that the menu bar Buddy List is always sorted by First Name. I don't understand why they don't use the same sort setting, or if it's intentional for that to be distinct, how does one change the sorting on the menu bar list?
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This list in the Menu bar can not be changed.
It would be nice if it sorted by Group as well as by Name.
Time for http://www.apple.com/feedback/ichat.html
11:08 PM Friday; December 14, 2007

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