ITunes 9: iPhone 3G Sync Playlists Wrong

When i sync my iPhone the top 25 is not the top 25 which i have on itunes. It is a bunch of random songs. Any ideas?

dstampf wrote:
Another data point. I don't have any smart playlists that I move to the iPhone, but I do have a playlist that on my mac is 90% podcasts. Nothing that is labeled as a podcast are synched to the iphone, but if they are labeled "spoken word" they are put on the phone.
I updated the iphone long ago and never had a problem.
I updated to itunes 9 just before this happened.
Check out this page: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2151347&tstart=0
Basically the podcasts are now "separate" from music in iTunes now and needs to be set up differently.
In regards to the playlist issues I can confirm that turning off live updating solves the problem but it is infuriating to have to turn off the "smart" part of the smart playlist. It may just be anecdotal but I've noticed a strong uptick in major software bugs from Apple in the last few weeks / months. Perhaps they need to slow down and concentrate on getting things right rather than just putting out crap.

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