Menu Bar: Re-ordering the icons

I have a lot of Apps which I access via the menu bar. But the order of the little icons is, well, not very ordered!
They seem to be in the order I installed the respective Apps. So, running from the right hand side:
Spotlight, Clock, Languages, Volume, Airport, Bluetooth, Time Machine, Spaces, then my non-generic downloaded programs.
How do I move these icons around, re-order them so to speak? Or is there another little app to do this?
Cheers.

If you look in System/Library/CoreServices you will see a folder called 'Menu Extras' and contains all the menu icons that come with OS X...
There are some pretty useful ones that are hard to find normally, for example 'Eject' puts an Eject icon on your Menu Bar, there are others as well.
Regards,
Jamie

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