Many smart playlists unavailable in "playlist is (not)" criteria drop-down

After upgrading to Lion and updating iTunes to 10.4:
When I try to create or edit a smart playlist, and choose the criteria "playlist is" (or "is not"), many of my existing smart playlists are unavailable to be specified. Example attached:
Well, assuming it attached properly, you can see that the list of playlists in the drop-down is missing many playlists that appear (and seem to be working fine) in my library on the left.
Killing me.

I'm having the same exact problem! And running latest OS 10.7.1, and iTunes 10.4 (80).
I tried making a duplicate of the playlsit, and it shows up no problem. But when deleting the original, and naming the new playlist the same — it turns invisible.
I don't want to have to rename all my playlists either... that's not a solution. Weird bug!
Any solutions? And why is this happening?
Maybe there's a way to re-set iTunes in some way... or some sort of error/consistency checker that can be run?

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