How to organize songs in playlist?

I have an iPhone 4s, and on my Favorite playlist I had them organized by alphabetical order to keep track of which songs i had in the playlist and which ones i didn't. When i went to look to see if i had a certain song on the playlist, i realized they were all out of order. I chose edit, and attempted to reorganize the songs, but they did not stay in the place that i put them in. I would move a W song to the W's, and it would move right back up to the C's. How can i fix this without deleting my playlist?

Rodrigo,
The answer depends on whether you're trying to order a smart playlist or a regular playlist.
If it's a regular one, you can manually arrange the order of the songs. Select the playlist, make sure to click on the heading of the left-most "numerical" column in the display and then drag the songs to the places you want them to be.
If it's a smart one, you can try the same method. I actually didn't expect it to work but a quick test with my iTunes shows that it does. Again, make sure to click on the left-most column heading first.
Anyways, once you've changed the playlist in iTunes, the new order should transfer over to your mini.

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Organization Problems. Can no longer put songs in playlists.

First
"Why am I reposting my earlier question?"
ANSWER:
1. I had to post my question a second time because as you can see my first post isn't showing as a question anymore nor does it allow me to recheck the "box" that turns my post into a question.
2. I received suggested answers via a "popup". The answers were dated 2006 and 2008.
3. While some questions may be able to have answers from that long ago, my question requires a 2011 answer.
I knew how to drag songs to my playlist in 2008!
4. The saddest part is while Apple is sending me expired answers from 2006 and 2008, Ask.com already has a thread on this subject.
Second: Please help me with my original question.
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1. I was shocked when I went into Itunes and I could not drag any of my songs from one playlist to another. I clicked and tapped and held down the cntrl/shift key. Until yesterday, I would have told you I was extrememly confident in my Itunes skills. It is one thing to not realize that this would be a problem but then to have NOTHING in the "help box" that addressed this common issue.
2. I teach "Writing in the Workplace" so I know that I exhausted the Itunes "help" box as well as anyone could.
3. I manually manage my music and I am going to continue to manually magage my playlists due to organizational needs.
4. AND I need to move songs to playlists WITHOUT activitating Ping.
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My question is the Headline and Is repeated as the 2nd header.
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Obviously, there has been an upgrade that changed the basic operation something that has my songs locked in place. However, nothing appears in the "help" that remotely answers my question.
I am just really sad it has taken me so long for something so simple and that I had to post here for something that should have been in "help" before the change was allowed to even happen.
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