IPod "Recently Played" gets erased/overwritten by iTunes

I set up a "Recently Played" smart playlist on my iPod. It works. I listen to a track and that track gets listed on the smart playlist.
Then, when I connect the iPod to the computer, iTunes seems to make its own version of the smart playlist (btw - yes, the playlist is on the iPod itself - I'm not talking about iTunes' "Recently Played"). In iTunes, the iPod's Recently Played list shows a different set of tracks - those that were played from the iPod through iTunes.

There seems to be a problem with the Classic and new Nano where play history does not update your library. I would guess it is something that may be fixed with a firmware update ... someday.
The other consideration is the use of games seems to wipe out play history. Do you play any games on your iPod? I know on my 5G I lose play history if I've played more than about 50 songs or so and then play poker. But if I play only a few songs between syncs, then poker doesn't clear out the play history. This has been a problem since day 1 and has never been fixed.

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Are you set to manually manage on both computers? If not, an auto sync on one of them will erase the iPod and place that computer's library on it.
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4. Log into the new user.
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7. Set the Music sync preference in iTunes for the iPod to Manual mode.
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2. Log back into the original (affected) user.
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* Delete the SC Info.sidb file as documented in http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302386.
* If the issue persists, recreate the iTunes Music Library as described in http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93313.
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IPod "Recently Played" gets erased/overwritten by iTunes

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