Sort images in slideshow

I spent the weekend scanning about 120 photos to make a DVD to run during my wife's 50th birthday part, naming them all by year and number within the year so they would be nicely sorted for the slideshow. Much to my disgust when I dragged them into the slideshow window, they did not appear sorted by name. Does anybody know of a way to easily perform such a basic task apparently unthought of by the program's developers? I was using iDVD 4, though I have 5 a work and it seems to have the same limitation.

I have only used the slide show feature of iDVD a few times and also noticed the rather random way that iDVD chooses to display a set of photos when dragged into a slide show. I have not figured out a way or heard of a way to reorder them in a specific sequence. If you want more control you might consider building your slide show in iMovie instead and sending to iDVD as a movie. Although the iDVD slide show builder is a very quick and easy way to do slide shows, but apparently has its draw backs.
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