Item Region: 'Group/Sort by' issues

I've got some serious issues organizing and sorting items on a page.
If I select 'Group by Item Type' and 'display the Group by banner', items are grouped by Simple File, Simple Text, Simple URL.
I am unable to change this sorting order and unable to change which itemstype should be displayed in the 'group by' banner ?!?
I have hidden these 'Simple' itemtypes, but they are still displayed. I changed order of Item Types in the Pagegroup configuration but the sorting order does not change.
Is this documented behaviour or a bug?
Furthermore, I cannot sort Items by date from most recent to olders. ('Group by Date' orders from oldest to most recent. 'Sort by' has no option for 'Date') How can I workaround and sort items from most recent to oldest???
NOTE: Pages are based on templates. Portal version 9.0.4.99

hi paul,
one workaround to sort items by date is to use an auto-query search portlet to render the items on your page. to do that you have to add a custom search portlet and configure it to be an auto-query portlet. in the results display tab you can specify the order by option. for the end-user the auto-query portlet looks exactly the same as if he was viewing an item region.
regards,
christian

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