Help with query

I am have an part of my game where you number can be anywhere from -99999999 (meaning you are a devil) to 99999999 (angel) and so on... i want to list the top 5 who has the most in each (positives and negatives)

the only way i can figure out how to do it (and it still doesnt work entirely) is:

<cfquery name="get_devils" datasource="userlogin">
SELECT alignment, user_ID, user_name from Battle
where alignment = 'devil'
ORDER by alignmentamount
</cfquery>
<cfoutput query="get_dev" maxrows="5">
#user_name#
</cfoutput>

except its not working.. it shows like (in order) -35, -4534, -254, -3, -642

when it should be 4534,-642, -254, -35, -3

what should i do to make this work right



how can i do this differently

Is aligment defined as a numeric value in your DB?

If you do a cfdump of the query results, is it in the correct order? Is it possible your field is a string and not numeric, which would mess with the ordering?