Sorting numberic data in a spry table

First Problem:
I am having trouble getting an secondary sort to work in a
spry table. As long as I do a single sort every thing works just
fine, but as soon as I try to do a secondary sort.... nothing
works.
Second Problem:
The data I am using ranges from 0 to 10. When I sort "1" and
"10" end up being right next one each other, but the 10 should be
on top. So the sort ends up as 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,10,1. when it should
be 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.
I'm sure it is something simple that I have not figured
out.... has anyone else run into this and solved it?
thanks,

there is an issue with this, regardless if you do ds1.setColumnType("Q407Q207A", "number"); the Damn thing does not sort negative numbers. Is there a way to fix this, You know what amazes me is that people would not take this into consideration, yeah lets release a framework with half the basic functionality. Sorry don't mean to complaint but I've been trying to find a fix for this for over a month and nothing not on the Live Docs nor out there on the WEB.

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"Tanushiheadbash" <[email protected]> wrote
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> Here's what I'm doing:
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>
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>
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