Automatic Downloads and Song Order

Hi,
I have automatic downloads enabled on my iPhone 4 so songs I buy on my computer are automatically synced with the phone over the air right after I buy them.  Great feature.
Here's the problem: when I buy a song on my computer, it puts it at the top my purchased playlist (little arrow is pointing down in the top left corner), thus organizing the songs putting newest at the top.  This is how I want my playlist to appear so I don't have to scroll down through 450+ songs to get to my newest ones.  Despite everything working fine when I buy a new song (it goes to the top just like I want), when it automatically downloads to my phone, it puts it at the very bottom, i.e. right after my oldest-purchased song.
This is super-annoying because of the way I play my music in my car.  The problem is fixed once I do a sync via the cable, it re-orders the song correctly to the "top" of my playlist, but shouldn't an automatic syncing be smart enough to put the song in the correct place like it does on my computer?
Thanks for any help!  Hopefully this is fixed when iCloud is fully up and running but I figured I'd ask if anyone had a brilliant solution or even just had the same problem.
~Adam

Hey gang-
Okay, this gets more and more bizarre.   I sent a support email to Apple and basically they said  "...it seems that someone else associated your Mac with their Apple ID. That's the reason your purchases won't download."
Yikes!   My wife and I live alone- and we have exactly one and only one Apple ID.    Would somebody have needed physical access to my iMac to do that?
Support then said "You can view which devices or computers are currently associated, remove unused devices or computers, and see how long before they can be associated with a different Apple ID from the Account Information page in iTunes on your computer."
Okay- so I logged into My Account in iTunes.   On the list of associated devices, my own iMac is NOT on that list.   But I am logged in under the same Apple ID I've had for years on that iMac.
So my big question right now is...if my iMac (that I've owned for 5 years) has somehow been dis-associated from my Apple ID, how do I find out what Apple ID it is associated with?
Thanks gang for trying to help me unravel a mystery.
Dave
PS- Here's an Apple Tech article on iTunes associations, but it doesn't really go beyond what we've discussed above:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4627

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