Ipad Photos sort order

I'm posting this entry to add my voice to the group of iPad users who have reported a defect in the order that the iPad displays photos, in the hope that Apple iOS and iTunes development will soon provide a fix for this defect.  The following is a description of my encounter with this defect, using a new iPad (3) with  iOS 6.0 and iTunes 10.7.0.21.
I have a set of 1000 photos on my Windows 7 64-bit PC.  I re-arranged the photos in an order different from the order that they were taken with the digital camera.  I did a mass rename of the photo files so that the first file in this re-arrangement is named P0001, the second file is named P0002, etc.  I used iTunes on the PC to import the phptos into the iPad.  I checked the order of these photos displayed on the iPad and it matched the order P0001, P0002, etc.  I disconnected the iPad and exited from iTunes.  Later I reconnected the iPad and started iTunes.  I checked the order of these photos displayed on the iPad and it DID NOT match the order P0001, P0002, etc.  I found that it matched the order in which the photos were taken. 
I consider this a defect because the order of displaying the photos is not consistent from the first time to the second time.  I would like the iPad to always display photos in the order of the ascending sequence of the photo file names.

When you say that you've followed instructions in other posts, have you tried deleting the photo cache from your computer and then re-try the photo sync and see if they then copy over in the correct order ? The location of the cache, and how to delete it, is on this page http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314

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