Ordering a stacked bar chart

Using the flash stacked 2d column chart, I would like to order the chart with the highest bars on the left and only take the top 10 results. I currently have 5 series going to the chart correctly.
Is there a way to sort and limit the final result this way?
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csbailey

I managed to get my data in order so that the above is no longer an issue.
Now, though, I find that my chart is very ugly (one bar taking up the width of the chart) when there are fewer than my maximum number of rows returned, currently 10. I have looked through the options and the xml documentation and can't find anything that says to format the bars in such a way as if there were X number of rows.
In this case, X is fixed, is there anywhere I can hardcode the width of the bars? I could only find the options for the space between.

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