ORDER BY (SELECT ...) -- asc/desc inverted?

[Felix]

Can anyone tell me why this ends up sorting the returned rows in reverse alphabetical order?:

SELECT type,value FROM attributes WHERE linkedCard=$cardID ORDER BY (SELECT name FROM types WHERE id=type);

$cardID: some integer
attributes table: type is int, value is a string
types: name is a string, id is int; for every possible value of type that occurs in attributes there is exactly one corresponding row in types, so this will always return a row and only one row, and name will always be a string in the same charset as everything else (in this case english/latin1/the default/whatever)

The following also returns the same (reversed) order as above:

SELECT type,value FROM attributes WHERE linkedCard=$cardID ORDER BY (SELECT name FROM types WHERE id=type) ASC;

and putting DESC instead of ASC sorts them in ascending alphabetical order (which is what I want). I couldn't find any mention of ORDER BY (SELECT ...) in the docs or on these forums, but I'm pretty much a newbie so I don't know if this should be a bug report or not.