Sort Orders question

[Childproof]

I'm trying to not use sort orders completely, just on a few products. Now to get these products to show up first on the list I put a (-) in front of them, like -1, -2, -3. This does in fact bring them to the top of the first page (The rest of the items in said catagory are set to 0 sort order, and they appear to list in the order they were created in the admin.

However, when you click to enlarge a item (that has a neg sort order in front of it) The pre/next buttons show it as "item 6/25" for example. It seems to be jumping up in the count to whatever number it was created in ( Like that was the 6th item I entered in the admin section.

Is there a way to get the pre/next buttons to show the actual list that everyone see's on the webpage, or do I really have to go in and set a sort order value for each item in that catragory?

Thanks,

[rstevenson]

Are they linked products? And are you viewing them in the category list to which they've been linked? Then perhaps the product detail with the 6/25 at the top is actually the category they were created in, and not the category they are linked to. Or vice versa? (Can you tell I'm guessing?)

Rob

[Childproof]

I thought about that, but no they aren't linked.

Another interesting thing, lets say you have 5 products in a certain catagory. Two of the five products have neg sort orders on them (-1,-2). When you click the catagory to open the view of all five products, they show up like they should. -1 first, -2 second, 0 third ,ect....

When you click the first product it shows it as product 3/5. As you click the "next button" it goes up in number order 4/5, 5/5, ect...

But when you click all the way back around to 1/5. It doesn't show the item with -1 first, but it shows the first item that was entered when the catagory was created. Almost like the sort order is being overided....

[Childproof]

Please tell me someone has an answer....

[rstevenson]

A link to your site will at least help us see the issue. Without that, we're stuck.

Rob