IPod playlists do not display new songs added alphabetically

I find that if I add new songs to my iTunes and then add them to an existing playlist in my iPod, the new songs are displayed alphabetically by artist in iTunes (the way I prefer it), but when I disconnect the iPod and explore the playlist on the iPod the new songs have been added at the end of the listed songs in the playlist - not alphabetically... this is driving me crazy. To play a new song I then have to scroll not to the artist where he/she is listed alphabetically in the playlist, but all the way to the end, where a random collection of songs have by now accumulated. (I know most people create their playlists to play songs in a specific order, not by artist, but I have my iPod permanently on shuffle, so I prefer being able to find a song/artist easily)
The only solution I have found is to restore the iPod to factory settings, deleting everything in the process, and then adding all the content to the iPod from scratch, after which both the old and the new songs are listed alphabetically by artist. This is just way too cumbersome - I'm sure there is probably a very simple setting somewhere ("sort playlist by artist"?), I just can't find it. I have tried sorting the playlist by artist on the iPod itself while connected to iTunes and then syncing - no use.
I have read the iPod nano user guide, but found no help...
Message was edited by: Frances1462

Thanks for the link - it didn't help for my specific problem, but I learned some other useful things! After I read it I tried everything I had tried previously, and this time it actually worked. This is probably a part of the Great Continued Computer Mystery... why something functions one day and doesn't the next.

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