Dear Em NGUYEN,
If you want to leverage the sorting facility provided by the Lightstreamer widgets, rather tham implementing it yourself, you could use the DynaMetapushTable or the MultiDynaMetapushTable. But notice that in this case you should use COMMAND subscription mode rather than plain MERGE.
A couple of representative examples are the Basic Portfolio Demo and the Portfolio Demo, available in the default installation of your Lightstreamer Server, or
online from here.
Regarding IE7, I confirm Lightstreamer is fully compatible with this browser, so I guess the issue should be in your code.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Alessandro