Is Sorting Photos in i-Pad possible?

As other felows I purchased the iPad to handle photos.
Surprise!!!
Apple has decided for me that when photos are imported the sort order will be the time it was created.
However you has selected, cropped and ordered and finally named it accordingly, they don't care of your intentions, all your job will be trashed because now the photos are in the creation order.
Not only that, but on top of it, you're not allowed to fixed moving it on the screen and placed in the order you want - No Way Jose.
I checked all over to find any where a setting for the photos to give me some choices in how to sort, and again No Way Jose.
How could be them (the Apple guys) be so brilliant for some things, and then become so mental challenged for this basic one?
The device is useless to me if this could not get fixed.
I just trashed $ 900? .... Is this possible to be solved?
The ones that know better please answer.

As for your last question, please see this link, and in particular, the 2nd page -
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3661001?start=15&tstart=0
You could also consider deleting the photo cache on your computer and try again. This link may be of help -
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314
Finally,deselect all the photos, do a sync, reselect the photos and do another Snyc to see if that helps.

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