Custom playlist folder showing songs that aren't in any of the playlists

I'm running iTunes 7 and I've created a folder to store all of the playlists that I use for DJing. Right now I've got about 90 - 100 playlists in that folder. When I highlight the folder to show all of the songs in that folder, I notice that it also shows songs that aren't in any of the playlists in that folder. The songs are in playlists in another folder (which isn't highlighted). I've gone through and checked to make sure that I didn't accidentally dump songs into a playlist that weren't supposed to be there. Any ideas on how to remedy this?

Try this -
select one of the 'phantom' songs, and right-click. Look at the 'Show in playlist' item to see which playlists iTunes thinks the song is in. Maybe it will help you narrow down the search for a solution.

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It may be best to recreate the folder and the smart playlists from scratch.
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I have zillions of songs and many playlists to manage them. So how do I create a smart playlist that shows songs that are not in any playlist?
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I want to be able to view songs in my Library that are not associated with ANY playlist. How can this be done? Please don't suggest to me upgrading to iTunes 7.02. (with every iTunes update, Apple makes is more difficult to do the things Apple doesn't want you to be able to do).
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Please be patient. If you don't get a reply within a few hours, obviously nobody passed by who knew the answer to your question.
After all we're just fellow users trying to help as these are user-to-user forums.
I have an answer.
Run one of these scripts:
Not In Any Playlist will create a text listing of songs that are not in any playlist.
Not In Any Playlist To Playlist will put songs that are not in any playlist into a new playlist.
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