Playlists not listing correctly on iPhone

I just purchased and set up my iPhone. In iTunes I have my playlists divided into master folders/playlists to make sorting through on my ipod nano easier. This works fine on my ipod nano - for example, I have a master folder/playlist called "new albums" and in that playlist I have a number of albums. On my ipod nano these appear as "drill-downable" sub menus. For example "music - playlists - new albums - Cold Play Viva La Vida - all songs on that album". On my iPhone, "new albums" does not appear as a sub menu. Therefore all playlists from all master folders/playlists are mixed in with each other (for example all albums/playlists that appear in my "new albums" playlist are mixed in with all albums/playlists that appear in my "favorite albums" playlist. Any thoughts on how to get the master folders/playlist sub menus to appear?

I have just started to have trouble playing my playlists on the iPhone. It started to shuffle them and when I turned shuffle off, it would only play one song over and over again. You have to open the iPod and manually advance to the next song. That is obviously unsatifactory. I downloaded the update on the iTunes software today. That did not correct the problem. I also restored the settings on the phone. It wtill will not play a playlist in the order I have it. There is some problem here. I would also be happy to hear a reply on this issue.

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