Put All Day Events in a New Order?

I have some events that I list as all day events that repeat so I can see which of my day care kids I have on which days. These events are all in 1 calendar (I have multiple calendars). There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the order they are listed on different days. Not alphabetical, not by order I entered them. I want to arrange them so the kids are alphabetical so it makes more sense when I glance at it. Can I rearrange all day events? I have tried dragging them around but nothing changes.

I too, am having this problem. I'm a new iCal user, and this issue alone is enough for me to stop using this application until this issue is corrected.
There seems to be no consistency in the way events are displayed, and events that are manually rearranged (in the order that I would like them) just revert back to the way they were.
VERY buggy application.

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