On a recent project, I used a Joomla Category Blog link to list all articles in a category. Then the client asked me to order the items alphabetically by title. I said no problem. Boy was I wrong. Apparently there is a bug  in Joomla 1.5.11 that prevents this from working. Now matter how I configured the menu link, the items would not order alphabetically.

The workaround for this is to order the items alphabetically in the Joomla Article Manager. This is a real pain, especially if you have more than five or six articles, or if you frequently add new articles.