Limiting which songs the iTunes Genius references

Two related questions about iTunes and "Genius":
First, how do I restrict which songs get shuffled in the Genius Playlist (left hand pane of iTunes, under Playlists). The "iTunes DJ" lets me pick a playlist (I use one with 4+ Stars) as a source, but the Genius seems to occasionally go for really deep cuts. Is there some rhyme or reason to what it pics out of my iTunes library?
Second, how do I limit which songs in my iTunes library from the "Genius Just For You" pool of songs (right hand pane of iTunes)? Every year in December I buy some Christmas songs for the kids but I have no use for those the other 11 months of the year. Even though they are all unchecked, the "Genius Just For You" insists on recommending Christmas songs in July.

Nope, not listening to Christmas music in July, LOL!
I thought I figured out, for example, playing Bruce Springsteen's "Rosalita" or Tom Petty's "Breakdown" would trigger the Christmas songs purchase recommendation in the Genius Sidebar (on the right) since I have Christmas songs from both artists, but now I can't recreate it. I also tested the "Genius sidebar could not find matches for your specific selection" lists, but its not there either. Strange...
As for the Genius playlist, I looked a lot harder at the matches and I guess they make more sense than I originally thought. Not that one song is necessarily like another in the playlist, but there is a general theme (fairly repeatable on both iTunes and on my iPhone OBTW) for all the songs in the list. I guess I just have some really deep cuts and eclectic tastes, it probably makes picking a list more challenging than the average iTunes library. LOL!
Thanks again, I appreciate the response.
John.B

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Here is the best work around I have found so far.
(It's much quicker and easier to do than to describe.)
In outline, you make an elementary Automator patch
that uses your playlist folder to create a hard coded playlist on iTunes
then just sync across to your iPhone.
1/ Run Automator on your Mac.
2/ In the Automator library select 'Music'.
3/ Under Actions for 'Music' select "Get specified iTunes items" and drag this into the workflow area.
4/ Using the "Get specified iTunes items" widget in the workflow area, press the "add" button.
5/ This allows you to choose from a menu that will include your playlist folder.
6/ Now under Actions for Music select "Add songs to playlist" and drag this into the workflow area
so that the results of the first widget will feed into it.
7/ In the "Add songs to playlist" widget choose "New playlist". Then enter any name for your new playlist.
8/ Run the patch (takes a fraction of a second).
9/ Sync generated playlist to iphone.
Job done.

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I´m a bit panicking since now 1000 songs on my iTunes library aren´t being located by my iTunes... What happened is that I had to reinstall my MacBook Pro after it crashed, and my network drive failed, so no possibility of Timemachining it. Fortunately I had a second manual copy of all my data on another external hard drive, but here´s the problem:
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I have copied all files from Music to Media, and tried to let iTunes find other missing links in the same folder (Media), but it doesn´t seem to work - it never finds them, even though they´re there, and in theory, in the same config that they were in the Music folder (as this one appears to be also organized). Tried to reboot library with option-down, and unchecking both keep it organized and copy files, but nothing worked. Also tried to have iTunes looking at the Music folder for the library, but this way it wouldn´t find the songs either.
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