Playlist listings not being properly copied to iPhone

I've recently moved my iTunes media files off the Mac and onto a network drive (after a lot of library tidying-up), and everything from that perspective is running smoothly. Both iPhone and iPad can receive selected music/podcasts/video etc.
But I have a problem with playlists on the iPhone. Even though the contents of a playlist are being copied over successfully to the iPhone, the playlist on the phone doesn't contain all of the entries. So if I have a playlist called 'Car' with 17 songs, the 17 songs are all copied over but the playlist only lists 8 songs.
After syncronisation, I can browse the contents of the iPhone in iTunes and look at the copied-over playlist, and it will list 17 songs. But if I look at the contents of the playlist on the iPhone it will still leave some entries out.
By the way, the iPad is behaving itself.
Can anyone offer guidance and suggestions on this rather odd problem?

Fixed my own problem, thanks to this tip elsewhere in the Support Community:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17562379#17562379
You do have to reboot the iPhone though (original poster thinks you may not have to).

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