how frequently does the letter l appear in:
q: splist.getitems(splist.defaultview) returns only visible items wsplist.getitems(splist.defaultview) only returns the number of items set to return in throttling settings on the view. im aware that i can increase the item limit for the view, but the users are ultimately going to change it back, so thats basically useless.
if i dont pass a view, i get all items. unfortunately, theyre not filtered in line with the default view, theyre filtered on the item id.
i cant get it to work in caml, because i would need to pass an empty query - i need all items, unsorted. im open to the idea of caml, but i cant really come up with a way to do this successfully.
is there an override setting or a method i am unaware of that will return all items ordered however they are in the default view?

a: you can use the caml query from the default view if you want, but note that youre then using both the sort order as well as any filtering from that view.
var query = new spquery();
query.query = list.defaultview.query;
var items = list.getitems(query);


a: you can try this:
 public static splistitemcollection getorderedlistitems()
 {

            splistitemcollection items = null;

            using (spsite site = new spsite(http://basesmc2008))
            {
                using (spweb web = site.openweb())
                {

                    splist list = web.lists[mylinks];

                    spquery query = new spquery();

                    query.rowlimit = 300;
                    query.query = <orderby><fieldref name=\order\ /></orderby>;
                    items = list.getitems(query);

                }
            }

            return items;

        }

}

taken from here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/sharepoint/en-us/1064f3d8-9fd5-4bcf-9d42-cd8b9c438595/how-to-get-ordered-items-when-using-splistordered
i dont think i need to explain whats going on as its simple to understand whats going on! get list and order it lol.

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I counted 69 "l"s in that text.
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