Can't expand playlist folders in device view

For ripping audiobooks --- use case, the Harry Potter series --- I create playlists for each CD, then put the playlists for each book in playlist folders.
This works (and looks) fine on the iTunes library side, but when I load the playlist folders onto the device (iPod 7gen, pink...) only the first folder looks right (folder icon) and browses correctly in iTunes (expands and collapses). iTunes displays the second and subsequent folders as if they were playlists and doesn't let me expand them for browsing.
On the ipod the icon is also wrong --- once again, looks like a playlist --- but I can browse the folder correctly using the touch interface.
Details:
* iTunes 11.4.1.62  on Windoze
* iPod 7gen (pink), software 1.0.2
Weird...Thanks!

LaunchServices is often implicated in drag & drop issues.
Launch /Utilities/Terminal and copy & paste this at the command line to rebuild LaunchServices:
Code:
<pre class="alt2" style="margin:0px; padding:3px; border:1px inset; width:640px; height:34px; overflow:auto">/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user</pre>
Then press return. Wait until terminal returns to the command line. Quit Terminal. After that, log out and back in or restart. Let us know
-mj
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