IPhone syncing unchecked playlists

This has been posted numerous times, but the discussions are all archived. Plus, I think I have figured out what is causing this situation.
I have discovered that the issue with unchecked playlists syncing on the iPhone is caused by the weird fact that iPhone sync will add any/all playlist the items you have synced appear in.
In other words, if you have a song/video in "Smart Playlist A" as well as in "Smart Playlist B" and only set "Smart Playlist B" to sync, because the item is in both playlists, both will show up on your iPhone.
In yet other words, if you sync an item to the iPhone, any playlist that item appears in—even if that playlist is unchecked in the "Sync selected playlists only" section—will show up on your iPhone.
This is idiotic. I am hoping someone knows of a way around this.
I discovered it by adding some home videos to my iPhone, and after doing so a bunch of odd playlists showed up on the phone. They only contained the videos. By unchecking the video sync checkbox and running another sync, those extra playlists disappeared. I deduced what was happening after reading some archived posts on the discussion here.
Anyone know why this is happening? Or can people confirm that this is happening to others, and not just me? If someone can replicate my steps above and have the iPhone not sync those unchecked playlists, I would like to know about it.

George Coghill wrote:
I have discovered that the issue with unchecked playlists syncing on the iPhone is caused by the weird fact that iPhone sync will add any/all playlist the items you have synced appear in.
I realize this is an old post, but in case you haven't solved this there is a workaround -- for all music-only smart playlists, add the criteria "Kind Does Not Contain Video" (use the "Kind" criteria, not "Video Kind"). You can still have smart playlists for your videos, and obviously you would leave that criteria out. Only the music smart playlists need this, and it seems to affect all iPods going back several iTunes revisions.

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