php sort using associative array

Hi,
I'm using krsort, ksort, arsort and asort in a script. Fine all goes perfectly, except that the sort field is based on file names from the directory contents, and they are (historically) ugly, as in MMDDYY, not YYYYMMDD, causing the different years to be interspersed together.
if($_GET['sort'] == 'alpha'){
    if($_GET['mode'] == 'desc'){
        krsort($files);
        $highlight = 'alpha_desc';
    } else {
        ksort($files);
        $highlight = 'alpha_asc';
    }
} else {
    if($_GET['mode'] == 'asc'){
        asort($files, SORT_NUMERIC);
        $highlight = 'date_asc';
    } else {
        arsort($files, SORT_NUMERIC);
        $highlight = 'date_desc';
    }
}