Newest version of iTunes won't order my songs on my iPod correctly

The newest iTunes update totally messes the way that I sorted my purchased playlist. I had them sorted by numbers of play descending, but when I sync my iPod, the songs aren't the way that I have sorted them on iTunes and it just started happening. Anyway I can fix this?

Its not sorting ANYTHING in descending (down arrow) order.

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deinstalled iTunes and quicktime
re-installed
re-installed old versions
removed every reference to iTunes in regEdit
used unlocker to ensure no files locked (other than system files)
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removed my virus checker
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pulled out most of my remaing hair
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