Sort taxonomy page alphabetically by meta rather than default post date

Maybe try something like this before the loop:

<?php
query_posts( wp_parse_args( $query_string, array(
    'meta_key' => 'your_meta_key',
    'orderby' => 'meta_value'
    ) ) );
?>

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