Can you shuffle within a playlist?

Hi
I have an ipod nano (8gig) and itunes 7.x
I want to be able to shuffle songs within a playlist on my ipod. Is this possible please? If so, how?
Do I need to upgrade to itunes 8?

No response here. After some googling I've found it is possible although the apple menus are very unintuitive

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