Set term_order rather than custom meta?

Any chance of getting this to update term_order in term_relationships database so that WP built-in functions like wp_get_object_terms() will work with orderby term_order?

Here’s the link to the wp_get_object_terms() source:
http://wpseek.com/wp_get_object_terms/

Thanks!

– Fred.

http://wordpress.org/plugins/the-taxonomy-sort/