ITunes 11 duplicated playlists for each synced device

Hello, I have noticed on iTunes 11, that when I right-click a song and "Add to Playlist", it opens a context menu that contains 3 distinct sections of playlists, iPad, iPhone and Mac. I have never created playlists individually on my mobile devices, and always sync via iTunes. How can I remove the duplicates?

Feedback sent.
I did find one clunky way to at least get something working: if you go into Podcasts, and go into List view (see selector at the top-center of the screen), then you can Select All, right-click, Get Info, and set Skip When Shuffling to No for all podcasts at once. You'll have to do this frequently, though, if you want new episodes to be shuffled. What a pain in the keister.

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