Importing - sorts image names all kooky - not in order

Please take a look at this image:
http://amrosario.com/lightroomimport.jpg
You can see that in the import dialog box, Lightroom puts images out of order. Image number 110 comes after image number 1099 and before image number 1100.
C'mon guys, fix this!!! This is basic sorting that should not be like this. It's going to take me quite a long time to manually uncheck the images that I do not want to import.
The images should be listed in proper numerical order! I have not had to deal with this bass ackwards behavior since Mac OS 9.
Antonio

Maybe it should be, but it's always safest to name them so they will sort properly in any program. I thought I was fine too with some naming without leading zeros until I wanted to use a particular slide show and it wasn't smart enough. So I always name things so they will sort without any "smarts" about how humans like to name things.
Meanwhile, can you sort by date? Should that be the same in your case, or not...

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