Placing multiple images in order

Sorry if this has been discussed. I searched, but didn't see anything. Anyway, when I try to place multiple images with the new bullet cursor or whatever it's called, the images don't stay in order. i.e. I select images named 1-50, when I place them, they get placed as 1, 15, 7, 28, etc. How can I get them to stay in the order I select? It makes for a serious pain when trying to build contact sheets.
I wish they wouldn't have gotten rid of that feature in CS4 (create contact sheets from Bridge).

I see nobody else has anything useful to say...
I don't know how to get files to stay in order in the cursor, except perhaps to have them named in alphabetic order. I think the ordering is controleed by the OS. Are you aware that you can use the arrow keys to scroll through the thumbnails in the loaded cursor until you get the one you want? Would that help?

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Just to let you know that I seem to have resolved the bug inadvertently with one of the Adobe updates. The below is the link for the AdobeOutputModule-2.1-mul-AdobeUpdate.zip which was released on 2/19/2009 - which allows for headers & footers to be placed in the Ouput pdf. I finally installed it today, and everything seems to be working fine now (i.e. I can pdf multiple images with the same filenames and the pdf will actually show each different image rather than repeating only 1 of the images).
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