IPod no longer playing playlists in order

I'm encountering the weirdest problem with my iPod Touch. After several months of flawless operation, suddenly after a sync a couple of days ago, every playlist plays in shuffle mode. The songs are listed in the proper order, but it refuses to play them in order. No matter which song I press to start playing, it never plays the next one in the list. I did a full restore, and nothing changed. Does anyone have any insight into this behavior?
FWIW, I really never liked the "Shuffle" approach used in this iPod. The Nano and previous iPod models had a shuffle mode in the main menu. The Touch requires you to press the "Shuffle" button at the top of the playlist, but then you never get to see what order the shuffle will be, unless you go the very limited list view. It just shows you the songs as they play rather than showing the restructured list of songs. But whatever, I'm just really annoyed that now it won't play the songs in any order except shuffling them. This is bad, and I need to fix it, as I DJ social dance events every week using my iPod.

I solved the problem by doing a hard reset as a new iPod instead of restoring, giving the iPod a new name. Still annoyed that it happened at all, but playlists are now playing in the order the songs are listed.

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