Comment pagination breaking sort by date

Hi all,

For some reason, when I have pagination turned on, the sort by date is only being performed on that page, not the whole list of comments.

Here is a sample of what is happening:

Page 1:
November 27
November 26
November 25
November 23
November 23

Page 2:
December 3
November 29
November 29
November 28
November 28

Page 3:
December 7
December 5
December 5
December 4
December 4

Here’s how I have things set up:

1) In Admin > Settings > Discussion I have:
“Break comments into pages with 5 top level comments per page and the first page displayed by default”

and

Comments should be displayed with the newer comments at the top of each page

2) In comments.php in my theme I have:

<ul class="commentlist">
<?php wp_list_comments() ?>
</ul>

<div class="comments-pagination">
<?php paginate_comments_links() ?>
</div>

I’ve tried passing things like ‘reverse_top_level’ to wp_list_comments(), but again this just effects the current page.

Where am I going wrong?