Mac mail "subject" is backwards

Some of the subjects are listed backwards such as "Geographic National" instead of "National Geographic". Looked at mail settings, but nothing seems to be out of place. In addition, this is inconsistent - it doesn't happen all of the time.

SOLUTION
Open "terminal" on your mac and type the following:
defaults write com.apple.mail IgnoreSortOrderWhenSelectingAfterDelete 1
(copy and past the whole line)
This will stop that behaviour in mail.
It works on most opperating systems.
mine is.
Mac OSx 10.7.2 Lion
Cheers

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