ITunes Smart Playlist Glitch

In the past, I've had no problem organizing my music via the rating system. I had a smart playlist named "Unrated" where all of my songs that had not yet received a rating would automatically be sent. Recently (I've upgraded / changed so much that I can't pinpoint what change the culprit may be) I have found that my "Unrated" smart playlist is acting up.
Problem: My smart playlist with the filter "Rating is 0 stars" becomes populated with songs in iTunes and is synced to my iPhone, but on my iPhone the playlist is empty.
Specs: iPhone 5S 7.0.4, Windows 7, iTunes 11.1.3.8
Other playlists work fine. Smart playlists with filters dealing with any specific rating (other than none) work fine. Smart playlists with random filters work fine. It's just the 0 rating filters that give me problems. In any case, the playlists DO appear on my iPhone when I sync--the 0 rating playlists, however, always appear empty.
I've done a hard and a soft reset of the iPhone. I've uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes, Apple Software Update, Apple Mobile Device Support, Bonjour, and Apple Application Support.
I'd love to know if anyone has a solution, has experienced this before, or has any insight. Thanks!
-Jeff

After some digging, I found a workaround that seems to do the trick, although a workaround isn't exactly what I was looking for.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1067876?start=0&tstart=0
Basically it explains to create a NEW smart playlist pointing to the smart playlist that isn't working via the smart playlist filter "Playlist is <brokensmartplaylistname>".
It's interesting that a supposed glitch from 2007 is strangely similar to the one I'm encountering today. The weirest part is that for years I've successfully had my smart playlist working with no problems and only recently have I run into this glitch. I can only hope that it leaves me as quickly as it came.

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