Iphone syncing all reminders regardless of what i select?

Question

In the mail,contacts,calendars menu, I have an option to sync reminders 2 weeks back, 1 month back, etc. Regardless of what I select, my iphone 4s ios 5.1.1 syncs all of the reminders in icloud. The option for calendars works correctly, however.
Am I doing something wrong or is this yet another apple bug?

Answer 1

OK, thanks for taking the time. I did this and it did nothing to solve the issue. Not only that, but the behavior is even stranger. For good measure, I made a new smart playlist on my Mac based on rating, last played and limited to 100 songs. The playlist came up by name on the iPhone, but with almost entirely different songs. At first they seemed to be playing ok (meaning, the song I selected actually played), but soon the same problem started happening. Almost all the songs I select will briefly show in the "now playing window" but then almost immediately it moves on to some other song. What's stranger is that while most of the time that other song moves to the bottom of the playlist, sometimes it just disappears entirely from the playlist. As in, it will still be playing but it is nowhere to be found on the list.
I should mention that as part of my troubleshooting today I tried all this on my ipod touch, on which I hadn't even activated iTunes Match before, and had the same problem.
Upon further testing, it seems like whatever song itunes decides to play in lieu of the one I want it to, that song either moves to the bottom of the playlist or just disappears.
If I play songs by going to the artist->album route, they play fine. That kinda defeats the purpose of having a smart playlist automatically shuffle what's on my phone.
Also, it seems to have nothing to do with whether the songs are matched or uploaded.
Getting pretty annoyed. I mean, being able to play the song I select isn't too much to ask, is it?