Paul is correct. I've always bound forms to queries, never tables. The queries take care of ordering the data.

but I would really like that new line to be "button-activated" just to give me and the other government-trained monkeys around here an opportunity to double check
As Paul said, you can set the Allow additions to FALSE. Then you could add unbound controls with a button to append (insert) the data into the table. More work because you, the programmer, are required to write all of the code. I have done this before on request.... just a little more work.