If you are comfortable with MySQL queries you can also try just setting dragSortOrder to the value of product_ID like this:

UPDATE cmsb_products SET dragSortOrder = product_ID;

Or if you need to sort in the reverse order you can minus from a number you're sure is greater than the highest product_ID

UPDATE cmsb_products SET dragSortOrder = 10000 - product_ID;

Let me know if that works for you!

I would like to sort the records by Product ID to get them into an approximate correct order, and then change the Sorting to dragSortOrder Desc to fine-tune.

Would this work…

Use MySQL plugin to remove the existing values in dragSortOrder: INSERT INTO cmsb_products SET dragSortOrder = '';

Then change Sorting to product_ID DESC to get all my products listed from highest product id to lowest.

Then change Sorting to dragSortOrder DESC 

Thanks

Jeff