rearranging Page ranking order on sidebar.

hi, my blog has several pages, and everytime i make a page it is ordered in alphabetical order.

what i need is for the order to be how i want it.

e.g. installation instructions first
setup instructions
using instructions
uninstalling instructions.

as you can see.. the order is important to me.

i tried using various numbers in the “page order box” but it didn’t seem to have any effect.

i considered putting an a) b) etc in front of the page names, but it looks ugly. i would rather have a picture.