Creative Mediasource Problems Organizing (Nomad Zen Xt

I would appreciate anyone's help or if anyone is having the same problems.
My MP3 player (Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra) works, and I just have a tiny discrepency. After downloading and installing all the new firmware and the latest plug and play and the latest version of Mediasource, I find that my experience using Mediasource isn't as comfortable as the older versions used to be.
My main problem is that when I connect my Nomad, it comes up in Mediasource as a bunch of files. Its shows up on the far left window and it's divided into two folders: Music and Playlists. It did not used to have this distinction. The problem is that when I click on the music and it finally loads up, the music isn't sorted and organized the way it is when I browse my PC MUSIC LIBRARY. There is no seperate windows for Artist and Album in the Nomad Music folder...and I remember having that before i updated all the software. I have to sort all my music in one big line rather than divide it up into artists and albums the way you can with your PC Music Library.
Also, playlists on the MP3 player are a hassle now too, because they show up as yet another seperate folder of the artist WITHIN the Music folder. This means I have duplicates of songs now in different albums on my MP3 Player without realizing it because if I have an album on my MP3 player, and then I make a playlist on my computer and send the playlist into my MP3 player, it puts the song in AGAIN, and I have all these unwanted duplicates. The only way to avoid this is to make a playlist within my MP3 player but I frankly find that to be an unpleasant hassle to go through all my music which is poorly divided and organized. It also won't let me upload tracks that have the same file name, such as a song from an album and then a li've version of the same song, with different tag information but a filename that is identical such as "Cherub Rock.mp3" even if they are from two differen albums and folders on my computer. It didn't do this in the older versions, but I can't use the older version because the new firmware doesn't work with the older version apparently.
I just want Mediasource to work the way it used too. Does anyone else have this problem? Can I organize the music on my Nomad in Mediasource any easier?

micromouse wrote:
... For PlaysForSure version of firmware, the organization of the tracks in the device as seen in the PC software (MediaSource) will be by folders and not by Genre/Artist/Album. ...
Is there an way to get the Genre/Artist/Album views back once the PalysForSure version is installed? It seems like this is a giant step backwards for the CMS Organizer, especially since the firmware is presented as being an "upgrade".
DZ

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