Blakles

I need pants products to always have the Waist option displayed before the Inseam option. I have noticed a problem where when either:

a.) Customer adds pant to their shopping cart as a guest, then logs in, the options are in reverse order (Inseam, Waist) instead of (Waist, Inseam).
b.) Customer is logged in, adds pant to their shopping cart, logs out, logs back in later to checkout, the options are in reverse order (Inseam, Waist) instead of (Waist, Inseam).

Can anyone help me figure out how to get the products attributes to stay in the same order in which they are added to the shopping cart to begin with? This happens with all attributes, not just the waist and inseam, but those are the only two where I really need them to be in a specific order.

For reference, the options/attributes are sorted on the product_info.php page by products_attributes.products_options_sort_order

Any help is very much appreciated. Thank you!