Don't Understand How to Play a Playlist in ITunes

I don't understand how to get Itunes to play my playlists on my home computer. I select the playlist, press the play button and either nothing happens or it may play the first selection in the playlist then stop. When I try to skip a song, it just stops as well. Is there some setting I need to have to simply play a playlist on my home computer. The playlists work fine on my Ipod. I don't get it. Please help.

Glad we found it.
Ya, the checkboxes are there to basically let iTunes know, yes, you can play me automatically. If they are unchecked, they don't get played (unless you specifically pick to play them) and if there are NO checked songs in a playlist, after it finishes the current song, finds nothing checked, so doesn't play anything else.
Patrick

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