Afaik, hash tables are ordered (reordered?) alphanumerically, not in the order that you added them. This is likely to increase the speed of accessing and searching them. The only solution is to assign each item and ID and include the channel name in the data fex 0001=#chan nick nick2 nick3 instead of #chan=nick nick2 nick3. But that would requires different search code and would slow it down.
