Need to change the order of people in Our Team: DW Page

This is a repost of a question I asked earlier that was not adequately resolved. I appreciated the quick response, but the suggested answer in this thread caused the site to go down and I had to revert to the original file. The question was marked as resolved, and I have no way of “unresolving” it to get a workable answer. Original post:

Our Team is displaying in alphabetical order, but we have some owners of the company that should be listed first. How can I change the order of the listing? Is it alphabetical by first name always, or can I alter this by changing the admin user name?

The suggested answer and subsequent error messages are documented here: http://designwall.com/question/how-do-you-change-the-order-of-people-in-our-team/ . As noted, I did remove special characters like smart quotes prior to making the changes.