Folder/Playlists won't stay in order

I created numbered playlists to keep them in order in iTunes. Once I go to my ipod (nano 6th gen, 8 gig), the playlists are out of order in the area where I choose the playlists to put on my nano. It seems like a bug. I even put them in a folder to try to fix it, and they're still out of order. Any ideas?

Same problem here..... Its annoying.
It took me a while to find this problem, seems like there are a lot of problems with sorting music with the update.
You would think the apple would start programing with the understanding they would build off the old design so that they ADD not subtract a million things people find useful then go back and bring back all the things people already liked about the product they use.
APPLE Please fix this.

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Allow me to Quote another DW user
First let me add here that I did find that when I upgraded to the new Creative Cloud version of DW and it imported my 12.0 site settings, the problem followed those settings into the 13.0 version.
Im on a Mac so these instructions would need to be taylored to the PC in regards to the location of the file referenced. And I am not sure if it's even the same file on the PC. So I can only speak for my experience on the Mac.
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