Deleting songs from my iPhone

Hi, so I have a bit of a complicated scenario that I hope someone can help me with.
I have 8GB iPhone and a 60GB iPod. Both are sharing the same music library.
My iPod synchronizes all songs in my library (about 30gb). But I only want to have a small subset of the songs stored on my iPhone at any given time.
I had hoped to do this by only synchronizing selected playlists to the iPhone so that as songs are added or deleted from the playlist they would get deleted from the iPhone as weill.
But once I have uploaded the songs from Playlist A to the iPhone and then change some of the songs in that playlist I have discovered that the new songs are added to the iPhone.. but the removed songs are not deleted.
I really do not want to remove the songs from my iTunes library as that will cause the songs to be deleted from my iPod as well.
Is there anyway to delete songs from the iPhone without deleting from the music library?
Thanks
Mark

I sync by playlist and the playlist in my iphone matches the playlist in my itunes. If I delete a song from the playlist in itunes, the next time I sync the song gone from iphone as well.

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