ITunes not reading Smart Playlist on Touch

I have a 'Recently Played' Playlist on my iPod Touch which automatically lists anything played in the last two weeks. Live updating is selected.
When I connect to iTunes, my Touch appears. If I click on the Recently Played playlist on the Touch, however, it doesn't show the correct tracks despite the correct tracks appearing on the Touch playlist itself.
I don't want to sync as soon as the Touch is plugged in, else I lose the podcasts from the list.
What's going on?

I've found that if I start a sync, then cancel it, I can usually update the Playlist without wiping the podcasts.
Far from ideal, however.

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You have it selected to *sync selected playlists* and those playlists are not syncing to the iPod?
however this seems to be very counter-intuitive behavior for iTunes
It can be kind of confusing.
I suggest it's not a bug in that it is acting as it's supposed to.
The option (Fill free space) could be made clearer. Perhaps if they added "with songs at random from the entire library" or somehow added an option to select what the free space will be filled with.)
1) The fact that iTunes it is not obeying the selected options on the screen
Not supposed to do that.
If the playlists all fit and there is free space, what would iTunes use to fill the free space if it only used selected items?
2) iTunes is allowing users construct an unhonorable set of choices out of four options. If "Selected playlists, artists and genres" is not compatible with "Automatically fill free space," then that option should be grayed out.
It is compatible.
If there is free space after your selections are added, what should iTunes use to fill the free space? It shouldn't fill the free space with stuff already on the iPod.

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