IPod touch 4 via BMW USB buggy after ios6 upgrade

My iPod touch 4 has less functionality through the BMW connector than it had before I upgraded the iPod from io5 to ios6.  In particular, there are 3 things that are wrong.
First, everytime that I plug it in, it always wants to play the first song in the ipod (when sorted by title).  Previous to this, the iPod was happy to keep playing whatever I happened to be listening to, even if it wasn't an audio file.  For instance, sometimes I would use the Audible app for the iPod.  And if I was in the middle of listening to a book, I could just plug in the iPod into my car and go on my merry way.  Now it always goes to the first song as soon as I turn it on.  It seems to ignore whatever I was listening to when I plugged it in.  I cannot listen through the Audible app.  The only workaround is the download the books from Audible and put them in a playlist.
Second, when I click on one of the numbered buttons on the radio (the one that is supposed to take me to the playlist corresponding to BMW # where # is the number I pressed) it always wants to play the first track in the play list, and not the last track that I had been playing.
Third.  When I try to advance to the next track, the stereo display says that I have moved to the next track (e.g., the display goes from 1-1 to 1-2) but the iPod continues to play the track it is on.  The advance does not work.  The up-arrow button on the steering wheel that is supposed to take you to the next track advances the stereo display, but not the track that the iPod is playing.  Previous to the update, I could skip tracks using the advance buttons.  The only workaround I have found for this it to edit the playlist prior to pluging in my iPod so that the file I want is the first file in one of my BMW playlists.  Otherwise I would have to listen to the all the files that come before the one I want to listen to.  This is silly.
I have a 2003 BMW with a 30 pin connector through the glove box that is supposed to let me listen to my ipod.  I have a iPod touch, 4th generation.  The connector is from around 2005.  It worked great with my first generation iPod touch, and with every version of the ios until ios6.

I did consider replacing the car.  But it seemed cheaper to replace the ipod.
The thing that did help was to erase all playlists from my iPod that did not start with BMW.  Once I did that, the old behavior was restored, and I've been happier since.

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