Burning smartplaylist vs playlists

Is there a difference in burning discs between a smart playlist and a regular playlist?
For technical reasons it's been several months since I've been able to update my iPod (hard drive crash etc.).
Once I got the right tools, I moved everything from my iPod to a new external hard drive and then also moved music from two back up drives onto the new drive.
So... I kept all the original music that was on my iPod (60 gig fourth generation I believe) and added some of the other stuff.
I use my iPod primarily as a yoga teacher. I use smart playlist to randomly create playlists for my classes.
Last night I tried to burn some of the playlists onto CD and none of the smart playlists would give me the option to burn.
I created a normal playlist on the hard drive but literally had to then locate each individual song from the hard drive and drag and drop it into the list. This was a real drag. Even then there were a few songs that just wouldn't let me move them.
I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong?
One other point in case it makes a difference. When I moved all my music from two smaller externals to a larger one, I went in and changed the names of some of the folders... i.e. a folder that was called Beatles,got changed to just The Beatles.
Could this make any difference, and if so, how would I fix it?
Not being able to burn these playlists is a real bummer

I figured it out. Apparently I've been doing things kind of backwards. Instead of doing all my creation on the computer and then moving things to the iPod, I've been creating lists on my iPod which of course hinders the burning process et. al.

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hi Robert!
I am using Roxio Easy Media Creator 7. (version 7.1.1.189 to be precise). I have no other CD burning software but I do have an Iomega external hard drive connected USP2. The software that comes with that is Iomega Automatic Backup v3.2.
no, i can't find anything relevant to do with conflicts with those packages. I'm not sure it's worth trying to uninstall 7.1 just to see what happens. (given that it's actually
b working
at the moment.)
curses. okay, at this point in time, all i can suggest is to start wading through our sea of documentation on burning problems. i believe you've already seen some of this, so apologies in advance:
b noir, "error codes" #4, 08:56am Aug 25, 2005
and then it's into the holding pattern ... keep checking the links to Apple docs, because they get updated. keep refreshing the thread with a post every now and then, in case we've been able to accumulate some more relevant working wisdom on the forums.
sorry i couldn't be of more help.
love, b

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