You are right, there is no apparent order and no, I don't know of any way of sorting it. There is the option to post a bug report about this, which gives me the opportunity to remind everybody that Blender, unlike most commercial apps, is open to everyone, so you can post bug reports that will be affecting the next release.
Here is the page to submit a bug report:
http://www.blender.org/development/report-a-bug/
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Paolo Ciccone
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