David,

See this message http://www.levelextreme.com/wconnect/wc.dll?FournierTransformation~?2,15,385279 for a solution to the problem.

>This has been driving me crazy for months - Any time that I'm prompted to select a file in the "old style" (i.e. getfile()) windows dialog boxes using Win98, the files and folders are all in an apparently random order.
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>Actually, there in the order of "least likely to be the file I want".
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>Does anyone know how to set this so by default it goes to alphabetical order, without having to select alphabetical order each time?