Using Aperture 2, photos imported out of order

I'm finding that when I import pictures from my card reader, that the photos are out of order, a lot of the time, and am wondering if there is something that I can do to correct this.
Thanks in advance for any help!

You can sort the images in Aperture in a number of ways:
You can also go into list view and sort on fields that are not in the list above. Finally you can modify the displayed metadata to add something to the default set that you want to sort on.
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