If ordering by the Left() and Right() don't work, can you Select Left(SerialNum,4) as sYear, Right(SerialNum,Length(SerialNum)-4) as sNum and then order by sYear, sNum? Been a while since I've worked in mysql, but several of the suggestions here look like they should be working.
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