LR4 drag to reorder images

I hope LR4 includes being able to drag images around in "Grid View" to reorder them. This is a huge issue for a wedding photog who is working with assistant and has to order images from 4 or 5 camera bodies. Not good enough to select "sort by capture time" because sometimes just a 2 seceond difference between the bodie's clocks can put an image slightly out of sequence. Right now I have to do it in Bridge and then rename all images followed by re-importing into LR. Huge hassle. Somebody dropped the ball with not including this ability in LR and I will not pay to upgrade to LR4 unless this is fixed. I am furious everytime I have to do this and won't even consider spending more $$ while having to go to Bridge.. Also, If I rank images by stars or color in Bridge the rankings don't carry over to LR and vise versa (unless I'm missing something). Bridge is so intuitive with this kind of thing. I would like LR to be just as intuitive.
Hope the right eyes see this
Mike
Michael C Photography

You can not reorder into a User order from within a Folder. You need to be in a collection to do so. Move all the images from an event into a single collection and you can reorder them via drag and drop.
Capture time can be altered by camera if you use your filter bar to select individual camera serial numbers and then alter that group of photos' time signatures. This will solve your out of sequence issues. Most people with more than one camera in a situation like this sync the camera times before an event to avoid just this problem. But, even if you don't or can't, the ability to filter by camera and adjust time by using Metadata>Edit Capture Time… solves this and puts your capture time in true chronological order regardless of camera settings.
I haven't been in Bridge in 3 years and cannot think of why, with Lightroom, I would ever go back there. I find Bridge to be counterintuitive and Lightroom to by very intuitive. I think as you discover more about recommended workflows in Lightroom you will find that your experience will be much better.
I am also concerned by your use of the phrase "re-importing into LR". It is almost never a good idea to re-import. I hope you meant import.

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