How Does The Playcount Sync Across iTunes and Multiple iPhones/iPods?

Okay, this is more of a lazy question, because I don't feel like investigating myself...
So I have an iPhone with all of my music on it. I also have an iTouch with all of my music. Occasionally I will play music on my iPhone, but primarily it's only used as an iPod when I'm driving and can plug it in.
However, the iTouch is being used more and more to play music on the go.
Both have the exact same library on them. They also have three smart playlists (which yes, I know they only update when synced with iTunes, since something is goofy with the smart lists) which rely on the playcount.
I was wondering how the playcount works when synced across the iPhone to and from the iTouch and iTunes.
Here's what I'm asking....
I have songs A, B, C and D.
On the iTouch, I play song A 5 times.
On the iPhone, I play song B 5 times.
On BOTH, I play song C 5 times.
On my computer, I play song D 5 times.
Now, how are they all going to sync? If I plug the iTouch in first, will it show that I played song A and C 5 times, and iTunes will update song D on the iTouch, but when I plug in the iPhone, it'll show that I didn't play song A, so it'll modify the playlist? Or when I sync the iPhone, will it update song C twice, one for the iTouch, one for the iPhone, so it'll show that I played it 10 times (correct)? Or will it only see that song C was played on one device?
My main reason is that I want to know how I should expect my smart lists to function when being spread out over three devices...

Play counts are updated in iTunes when you sync the device, and should then propagate. So, for song A which was played only on the iPod Touch, after those 5 plays if you sync the iPod Touch that will change the iTunes count to 5, then if you sync the iPhone after that, song A will have a play count of 5 for the iPhone's smart playlist (since syncing the iPhone will update the smart playlist at that time).

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