Unless I’m completely misunderstanding, it should be that easy. You put them in a collection, and then sort manually in the collection admin page. This will only work in collection view though.
Hey Shaun – I found a work around for the immediate moment of just tweaking my product names in order to group them better. Definitely a short term solution since my product line will be growing significantly.
I did create collections in the spirit of your suggestion - but had to lower those efforts on the priority list due to ever changing priority list.
It still seems like the best solution - once I can re-focus on it.