How can I preserve user selected sort order while giving precedence to initial sorting

I tried the stateSave option and it worked great - but ran into problems because it ends up overriding the initial sorting when the page is loaded next time.

My table initialization code looks like this.

            $('#ResultsTbl').dataTable( {
                "bPaginate": false,
                "bSortable": true,
                "bDestroy": true,
                "bFilter": false,
                "stateSave": true,
                "bInfo": false,
                "aaSorting": [[8,'asc']],
                "oLanguage": {"sZeroRecords": "", "sEmptyTable": ""}
            });