Not so weird, in my opinion -- you can sort just part of the list, allowing you to have a couple of hot-button items at the top, and the rest sorted alphabetically (or whatever sort strikes your fancy).
Sorry, I read your post about the scripted sorting, and just assumed that you had a good reason for wanting to do that, and didn't even think to suggest you could use a built-in command. After all, you hardly seem to be a novice user, you're manipulating your database with reasonably complex Applescripts, why would you need my help finding something that's right there in the menu in front of you? :-)