Comment 4 for bug 367721

The analysis there is correct, this is a bug in the front-end.

Bug 485041 contains discussion and explanation as to why networks won't be listed by strength and are listed in alphabetical order instead.

Note that your "favorite" networks, the ones that have been connected to before and are configured in the connection editor (or manually entered), would show in the "top 5" list that doesn't get folded over to "More networks" (up to five, of course). This should take care of the cases after first setting up your system; although the first time you would still need to select the network from the list (wherever it ends up in that list).

Since I think this is pretty much covered in later releases (Lucid and on), I'll mark this Fix Released. Don't hesitate to reopen or file a new bug for specific issues you might encounter. Thanks!