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Workaround from Macintouch - I have not tried it yet. http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/...d20oct2009

Experiences

Robert Milkovits

RE: Thomas Emmerich (and others) and problems with Smart Playlist order in iTunes 9 not matching the order on the iPhones:

There are a few threads on Apple's forums about this. It isn't specific to podcasts, but this is I think the most common place the issue appears. The following setup worked for me to work around the problem:

* Create a smart playlist for what you want. Basically this is the play list you already have, so you could just rename it. You can keep the live updating enabled.

* Create a second smart playlist whose only rule is items that are in the first playlist. You can keep live updating enabled.

* Sort the second playlist the way you want.

* Sync both playlists to the phone. You have to also sync the first playlist so iTunes and the iPhone don't complain about missing dependent playlists or something along these lines. But since the content is the same, you won't use up any added space.

* The second playlist will have the correct order on the phone. The first playlist will have the wrong order.

See Apple forums here for one thread on the topic:
Topic: Some Smart Playlists don't work on iPhone

Don't forget to file a bug report with Apple:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html