[Plugin: WP-Table Reloaded] Show_Rows order

I am using WP-Tables to power my homepage. I have a single unified table but display select rows from it on various tabs. To do this, I hide all the rows in the unified table and then use the show_rows field to select the rows I want. I have 2 issues:

1) No matter what order I type in the rows in show_rows, it forces the order back to the order in the table itself. This is problematic for two reasons. First, I may want a different order of rows in different displays of the same data. Second, even if I were to only have one order across all displays of the data, inserting a row would then cause me to need to update every display of the data with new row numbers in show_rows.

2) Is there a way to display only rows where a certain column contains something. This way I can note where to display a row in the table itself instead of messing around on the page it is displayed upon.

If WP Tables Reloaded can’t do either of the above, do you have a recommendation for someone with no database experience?

FYI, I am using it here: http://acq1.com/f within a jquery tabbed display

Thanks!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-table-reloaded/