This recipe provides you, as the master of the kitchen, the choice of sorting entries in your configuration box. Default osCommerce sorts the parameters by the sort_order column specified in the configuration_group table, which is created during installation. If you do not consider the current sorting method intuitive to use, here you'll find options to create your customized sorting choice, and even divide the configuration-box links into bite-sized sections according to the areas covered by the entries.
The following screenshot shows Administration | Configuration | Minimum Values with the selected box (Minimum Values) highlighted in red:
Note that three sections have been created for this screenshot, with the first covering catalog administration and the second covering site administration. A third area (reserved for contributions) has been set up to be automatically filled by new groups added to your configuration...