Changing Page Order Under Parent Page

I am having trouble ordering my blog’s pages in a subcategory. I have the order number set under page attributes for each page that I am trying to display in a particular order, but because I have these pages listed beneath a parent page (all under the same one), it isn’t working; they are not appearing according to numerical order. They still only appear in alphabetical order beneath this parent. So it does not appear that the numerical ordering of pages works if you have the pages listed beneath a parent page. Is there a workaround for this, or could I ask that this be fixed on the next upgrade?

Please let me know.

Thank you,
kopper