diff --git a/productMods/js/visualization/personlevel/person_level.js b/productMods/js/visualization/personlevel/person_level.js
index 36654884..150c0e26 100644
--- a/productMods/js/visualization/personlevel/person_level.js
+++ b/productMods/js/visualization/personlevel/person_level.js
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ function renderCoAuthorshipVisualization() {
 				"src", swfLink,
 				"flashVars", "graphmlUrl=" + egoCoAuthorshipDataFeederURL,			
 				"width", "600",
-				"height", "840",
+				"height", "850",
 				"align", "top",
 				"id", "CoAuthor",
 				"quality", "high",
diff --git a/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/visualization/coauthorship/CoAuthorshipGraphMLWriter.java b/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/visualization/coauthorship/CoAuthorshipGraphMLWriter.java
index 95b552d4..dd7c4647 100644
--- a/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/visualization/coauthorship/CoAuthorshipGraphMLWriter.java
+++ b/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/visualization/coauthorship/CoAuthorshipGraphMLWriter.java
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.visualization.coauthorship;
 
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.URLEncoder;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 
@@ -86,8 +89,11 @@ public class CoAuthorshipGraphMLWriter {
 		
 		Set<Edge> edges = visVOContainer.getEdges();
 		
+		List<Edge> orderedEdges = new ArrayList<Edge>(edges);
+		
+		Collections.sort(orderedEdges, new EdgeComparator());
 
-		for (Edge currentEdge : edges) {
+		for (Edge currentEdge : orderedEdges) {
 			
 			/*
 			 * This method actually creates the XML code for a single edge. "graphMLContent"
@@ -182,8 +188,13 @@ public class CoAuthorshipGraphMLWriter {
 		 * */
 		getNodeContent(graphMLContent, egoNode);
 		
+		List<Node> orderedAuthorNodes = new ArrayList<Node>(authorNodes);
+		orderedAuthorNodes.remove(egoNode);
 		
-		for (Node currNode : authorNodes) {
+		Collections.sort(orderedAuthorNodes, new NodeComparator());
+		
+		
+		for (Node currNode : orderedAuthorNodes) {
 			
 			/*
 			 * We have already printed the Ego Node info.
diff --git a/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/visualization/coauthorship/EdgeComparator.java b/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/visualization/coauthorship/EdgeComparator.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f33adc54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/visualization/coauthorship/EdgeComparator.java
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.visualization.coauthorship;
+
+import java.util.Comparator;
+
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.visualization.valueobjects.Edge;
+
+
+public class EdgeComparator implements Comparator<Edge> {
+
+	@Override
+	public int compare(Edge arg0, Edge arg1) {
+		return arg1.getEdgeID() - arg0.getEdgeID();
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/visualization/coauthorship/NodeComparator.java b/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/visualization/coauthorship/NodeComparator.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b47259bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/visualization/coauthorship/NodeComparator.java
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.visualization.coauthorship;
+
+import java.util.Comparator;
+
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.visualization.valueobjects.Node;
+
+
+public class NodeComparator implements Comparator<Node> {
+
+	@Override
+	public int compare(Node arg0, Node arg1) {
+		return arg1.getNodeID() - arg0.getNodeID();
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/themes/vivo-basic/site_icons/visualization/coauthorship/CoAuthor.swf b/themes/vivo-basic/site_icons/visualization/coauthorship/CoAuthor.swf
index 3110758f..c801820b 100644
Binary files a/themes/vivo-basic/site_icons/visualization/coauthorship/CoAuthor.swf and b/themes/vivo-basic/site_icons/visualization/coauthorship/CoAuthor.swf differ