Automatic Syncing only a single Playist

When I select a single playlist for automatic syncing (and only this playlist), it still syncs most of my entire library with it. How to I make it so only this only this one playlist syncs, and nothing else?

Dan, when you say "click on .Mac", where should one do that?
My iSync icon on the menu bar does not have that option. My .Mac preferences has four "pages" or "tabs" - Account, Sync, iDisk, and Advanced. I can not find any place to specify individual calendars.
Under Sync, I can only choose to sync all calendar data or none at all. Under Advanced, I can select my computer, click "Reset Sync Data", then I can select to replace all data or just Calendar data from the computer to the .Mac or vice versa.
Is there another place to make this selection?
I have

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Hey, glad I didn't help.
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After literally digging for forever.
Something less than 38 minutes is forever? (time it took to post first question, find answer, get upset and post 2nd time).
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