Problem combining PDFs in Acrobat 9.1

Folks,
I'd appreciate some help with the following problem. Maybe I'm simply being a nong -- always possile -- if so, please be gentle with me!
I have a document that was saved with each page as a separate PDF, and I need to combine them into one -- obviously, in the correct order.
The only way I know to do this is to open either the first or last page, then go to Document | Insert Pages | From File ... (I'm using Windows XP), and select the range of pages in the selection box. Then I tell Acrobat to insert them after the existing first page, or before the page if I have the last page opened, and it does so.
Everything seems to go without a hitch, but no matter how I select them, or what options I choose in the dialogue box just before their inserted, they're always inserted in reverse order.
The PDF files have their page number in the file name, so they appear in the dialogue box in the correct order. But how do I get them to be inserted into the existing PDF in the correct ascending order?
Or do I have to insert them manually, one at a time? Surely not?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Bran

Bernd, you beat me to it!
I went back to Acrobat, and thought "wait a minute ... Combine !!" I guess sometimes you just need to ask the question, get it out of your thoughts, for the answer to show up. I was on my way here to post that I'd solved it, but you beat me to it.
Thanks for your reply anyway. I appreciate it.

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