Sorry I didn't take enough time to understand your question.

One more shot at it. How about two step query?

Insert in temp table all your records using "select rank=count(*), entry_id,...

A quick idea based on all the time values being [minutes:seconds].  Store the time as a whole number.  1:35 becomes 135.  Now you order (rank) using it. 

For display convert...

Hello Antares686,

Thanks for your quick and valuable response.  We didn't realize a failed insert could still increment an identity counter.

That was the clue we needed. Found the problem, an unexpected...

Thanks for the suggestions.

We have set formatting and language correctly.

Just to confirm, we are running server side VBScript scripts.

I should have posted snippets of the code...