IMix Search Ineffective

What am I crying about...
I was searching for my own iMix on iTunes. It took me a long-assed time to find it. Here's why...
1) Searching by name doesn't work.
The title of my playlist is "Alternative as I Wanna Be." It's a crappy title, I can admit that. But, I couldn't find it by typing "Alternative" in the iMix search. No, that would seem too logical.
If you search iTunes for "Fiddler," you can find "Fiddler on the Roof." Simple. If you type "Alternative" in iMix, you find everything but "Alternative as I Wanna Be." For some reason, the iMix search can't deciper the fact that "Alternative" is, in fact, one of the words in the title. You or I could figure this out. Why can't a computer?
2) Sorting by rating is useless.
Other sites that have rating systems, like YouTube, have a good thing going. Not only are results sorted by rating when you choose to "sort by rating," but the number of times rated is accounted for. This way, some a-hole can't go on, give his post a 5-star rating, and laugh at what suckers the rest of us are.
iTunes' iMix search, however, does not work this way. I can't understand why a playlist rated once at 5 stars gets higher billing than a playlist rated 570 times at 4.5 stars. That's not how the world works... that's not how life works. Change it.
MacBook Pro (Intel Core Duo) Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I haven't even tried it yet, but found this on another thread:
On the iTunes Store main page, click on iTunes Essentials in the More in Music section at the right side. When the iTunes Essentials page comes up, click iMix in the More in Music section on the left side.
Then you can browse. Don't see any way to search.

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I tried to find an apple.com eMail to ask this help without be successful.
Please I hope you can help me.
Well: I did an iMix including 7 songs on the list. I followed exactly all the iTune instructions.
BUT when I published this list, it results ONLY the last song !!!!!!
It' strange because all the songs, are published on iTunes ( search "Tiziano Demaria" on iTunes Store as author, and you will find my CD Karen. Those are the songs !! )
I want to delete this iMix because with only one song it's simply a ******** !
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- In what manner to be able to have in the iMix ALL the songs that I chosen ?
I'm really sorry if I ask to you but it's very dramatic to have not support from Apple about those issues !
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