Issue with sorting threads and messages within threads

[Steven M. Sawczyn]

Try though I might, i can't seem  to get this to behave correctly.   
Here's the problem.
I have my messages grouped into threads.  I can then sort the threads  
from newest to oldest or oldest to newest by hitting vo+| on the date  
received column.  When I open a thread, however, I'm always put on the  
newest message in the thread.  This makes no sense as obviously you'd  
want to read a thread from oldest to newest.  OK, maybe not obviously,  
but to me, it makes sense to read a thread that way, so you see the  
original post and then the follow up posts.  So, I figured that from  
within a thread, I would just click the date received column again.   
This had the effect of resorting my messages, but again, the wrong  
message gets selected.  Just in case this has any bearing on anything,  
I arrow down my message table and when I find a thread I want to read,  
hit right arrow to expand it.  I'm then placed on the newest message  
of the thread, the wrong one.  Am I doing something incorrectly here,  
or is this really the correct behavior?  I can expand a thread and  
then arrow up to the top message in the thread, but this is a real  
pain, especially if the thread has tons of messages in it.  I tried  
looking in help, but except a vague explanation on what group by  
thread actually does, didn't see any specific info on sorting messages  
within threads.
Any ideas?

Steve