Organizing music on iPod mini

My iTunes library is larger than my mini will hold, so iTunes created a "selection" for it, which I have been able to edit. However, I can't figure out how to move playlists to the mini - it seems as though the "selection" overrides playlists.
Also, suddenly "Spoken Word" content is showing under Audiobooks on the mini, although it is showing as "Spoken Word" in my library. This seems to have happened after the last software update to 6.0.2. Any fixes?

It isn't really possible. If you put the year of release into the Sort Album field you can make things work for one artist, but as soon as you have two or more artists then that won't work. Adding both the album artist and then the year of release in the Sort Album might get the albums in the right order in say the iPod's cover flow, but then you'd find the main Albums list a complete jumble in both the iPod and iTunes.
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