Saving a Tool Preset

Hello
When adding a new tool preset, Photoshop CS6 used to place your new preset in your existing toolp presets panel in alphabetical order.
Lately, it stopped doing this - it just places the new preset at the bottom of the list, forcing me to go into the presets manager and then tediously dragging the new preset from the bottom of the list up into its proper alphabetically-ordered position. Doesn't sound like a big deal to most people I'm sure, but my tool presets list has several hundred presets, maybe even more than a thousand. So having to do this every time I add a new preset is becoming cumbersome.
My question is where did this all go wrong - it used to do it automatically, but stopped somewhere along the lines. Anyone else experience this problem?

In the Tool Preset menu (gear icon) do you have "Sort by Tool" checked on?
Gene

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