Which version of windows are you using? That looks like win2k or earlier. The alphabetical sorting you described is the traditional display order of most systems. There's no natural distinction between the letters and numbers so it sees image12 as lower than (and before) image2. You want a hybrid alphabetic and numeric sort.
XP sorts numerically by default. i.e. a12 is bigger and after a2. It can be disabled with a policy setting or equivalent registry change, but the default is what you want.
The old alternative was to zero-pad leading digits. a2 becomes a02, and therefore sorts as it would numerically.
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