Order of 'Stuck' Threadsr?

I would like to have 'stuck' threads in a group I administer to appear in a specific order, rather than in the order they are currently in.  Can anyone tell me how to 'arrange' the stuck threads?

You can un-stick all the threads and re-stick them in the desired order...

ADK

That makes sense, but I can't seem to get it to work that way. 

I am trying to stick 5 threads to appear in a given fixed order.  When I unstick all of them and then begin to make them sticky one-by-one the order they then appear in is neither the order I stuck them or the reverse of the order I stuck them.  I can't figure out what is actually determining the order - but it isn't obviously related to the order I stuck them.

Help!

This is just a guess Graybeard but the time of the last post determines the order of unstuck threads. So following that line of thinking if you unstuck them and added a post to each in the order you wanted them stuck and re-stuck them it might work.