Random sort order in slideshows

I was trying to import some jpg's into a slideshow, from a folder of jpg's. I found that the slides that ended up in the iDVD slideshow were randomly sorted. The sort order matched neither the date/timestamp, the filename, or any other metadata I could work out. I then imported them into iPhoto and discovered I could force a sort order there and bring them across from iPhoto into iDVD and that worked.
However, the behavior of iDVD when importing from a regular folder of images is very buggy, and of course there are no slideshow sorting options within the program. I do this regularly and pumping everything through iPhoto just so I can get my slideshows sorted is cumbersome. Has anyone else seen this and is there an explanation/fix?
Thanks.

Did you have any luck with this? I have been trying all day to find a solution for this very problem. I know I can do the *into iPhoto first* theory - but as I am adding from Aperture I had thought I was past the iPhoto malarky.

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want to replace the original photos in the event
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Sorry for the double-post here, but after reading the fix suggested at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3066818&#3066818 more carefully, my problem is resolved.
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(Last Name). In the Pages document, I am only
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Book.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=306
6818&#3066818 did not solve my problem. I have tried
dragging and dropping the group into the Pages master
document -- it simply comes up with a different,
random sort order.
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