Merge Clips w/ Synced Audio, Tracks Map Weird

I've synced some clips in a sequence. There's the camera with camera audio, then 3-4 discrete audio tracks from different files. When I click those clips and "Merge" them into one, then I open the clip created in the Project Panel, then look at that clips Mixer, the audio tracks are not in order they were in the sequence. They are in fact in no order. The camera Tracks which are on 1+2 in the sequence can be 1+5 or something with other audio tracks or dead tracks in there. I want to merge the clip and have the newly created file in the same order as the sequence. How do I do this? Thanks

I honestly don't know, I just don't use Merged Clips frequently enough.
But I do know that the track order for audio won't change the final output, like it will with video.  So..why worry about it?

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