Purchased Playlist Not Updating

Running iOS 7.0.1 on an iPhone 5s
My music app is not automatically downloading any new purchases, despite automatic downloads being turned on. Furthermore, it's not adding anything purchased on my iPhone to the "Purchased" playlist, it's simply going into the main library.
I contacted APP last night about it and they hadn't heard of the issue. Curious to see if anyone else has a similar issue and/or a fix!
Thanks in advance!
=Nate

So it appears iOS 7 now auto updates all smart playlists, but doesn't auto update regular playlists. The purchased playlist was treated as a special playlist under iOS 6, making it the only playlist that would auto update. Now it is treated as a regular playlist. To get an auto-updating purchased playlist, create a smart playlist in iTunes that only includes purchased music and order the playlist by purchase date.
Now if only we could add to a playlist, from a playlist....

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