How to view one playlist by albums? (Not entire music library)

Albums are importatnt to me. I listen to the Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album for instance. I have no desire to have those songs shuffled etc. However, I also like the Genius Mixes. They take songs from my list of singles and intelligently order them like a radio dj would.
Let's say I put my 5 favorite albums in a playlist called "Favorite Albums:. I sync this to my Ipod touch. I can now turn my ipod horizontally and see my albums and easily pick the one I want.
Now let's unsync that playlist and sync one of my Genius Mix
Now I can play the Genius Mix and here songs by Singers/Songwriters (for instance) that are intelligently chosen and ordered. I've tried this on Itunes on my desktop and I like how it works.
Here's the problem:
Let's try to sync my "Favortie Albums" playlist AND my Genius Mix
I now go to my Ipod Touch and find my "Favorite Albums" playlist. It shows a list of songs. ( don't see an option for album view anywhere). Now I turn my Ipod trouch horizontally expecting to see the albums in that playlist. Instead I see dozens and dozens of albums. My albums are in there somewhere but my Ipod touch is showing me every song on my Ipod in album view. The other albums are there because the Genius mix needs thosee songs.
At first I thought my Ipod touch was mixing all of my playlists and Genius Mix togethor. No matter what playlist I opened I saw dozens and dozens of albums from other plalyslists.
It took me hours on the phone with Itunes to figure out that there was not real problem witht playlists. The problem is that I was assuming if you are looking at a playlist and turn the ipod horizontally you would see that playlists.
Ok, so that is the way it operates and I didn't know it. But. I can't find any way to view a playlist by albums on my ipod touch.
Yes, I can look at artists, songs, albums, playlists. But looking at albums doesn;t help. It shows ALL of the albums and in list view.
The agent was very friendly but had no idea what a Genius Mix was. I had to carefully explain to him that a Genius mix is not a Genius Playlist etc etc.
In the end his suggestion was that I don't use Genius Mixes and only sync the albums I want. My answer to that is that someone at itunes came up with this Genius Mix thing and the tout how wonderful it is. It's pretty bad to then say "Why don't you just use shuffle?"
Can anyone help me figure out a way to have Genius Mixes on my Ipod Touch and be able to look through my plalist by albums?

You can burn that playlist as data CD/DVD (backup). Go to the preferences menu and make sure that data CD/DVD is selected. If the playlist is too large you could split it by moving a part of the files to a second playlist.
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