Playing smart playlist by release date on Shuffle

I cannot get this to work. I'm trying to listen to podcasts by release date but for some reason it's not. I have the smart playlist setup to include "Most recently added". Is there some other way to do this?

Create a playlist and add the podcasts you want to
it. The order you add them to the list will be the
order they play in. If you mix this order up, just
click on the far left bar above the track numbers to
restore it to the original order.
Since the podcasts under the podcast icon are sorted
in order by release date, if you drag a group of
podcasts into your playlist they will stay in that
order.
Hope this answers your question.
Yeap, I've been meaning to reply. This workaround does work for me. It's not perfect, but it's easy enought to create a new playlist called 'podcasts" and dragging and dropping the latest podcasts in it, and then manually syncing it to the ipod.
Of course I have to do the same for videos too.
BTW, most interesting we have the same computer. Except mine is the 500mhz version of the 1st gen tibook.

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I would like to create a a Smart Playlist that will do the 2 following things:
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(I solved this one)
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(Couldn't solve this...)
Summary: playing music in the order it was added to the library AND maintaing the original track order of the albums...
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But now the albums play backwards- (as you know, iTunes rips album's songs in their original order, so when your sort by 'Recently Added', each album plays backwards ! -last song first, first song last and so on- This is problem I want to solve-
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Hi, all
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I thought this just should be pointed out and reported so maybe it can be fixed in a update or something. It's quite a particular fault so maybe it hasn't come up before?
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In another thread it was suggested to edit the Smart Playlist in iTunes for podcasts and uncheck Live Updating. This worked for me and my podcasts were again on my iPhone.

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