ITunes 11.0 (163) Failure to create new smart playlist

iTunes 11.0 (163) does not allow creation of new smart playlists. Attempts to do so result in a playlist of zero tracks no matter what the rules say.
Editing of an existing smart playlist created using an earlier versions of iTunes  resulted in deletion all the tracks in the playlist.  This happened to me (attempting to investigate the problem with creation of new smart playlists in version 11.0 of iTunes) I attempted to edit an existing playlist.  I edited  the maximum number of tracks in the playlist from "unlimited" to 10.  This resulted in a playlist of around 12  tracks being reduced to zero tracks.  I am unable to reverse this change.

A first question. Have you all your songs checked ... you know, the little tick which says whether a song should be played or not ??

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