Playlist order different on iPod

I thought I'd found a solution to this elsewhere on the boards, but I was wrong
On my iPod I have a playlist called Purchased Music, which was initially synced from iTunes. Because I update manually, each time I buy a new song, I drag it into the iPod library, and then from there to this playlist.
Altho it shows up alphabetically on iTunes, when I go to my iPod to listen to it, the most recently purchased songs are at the end of the list. I can't drag them to the order I want them in, because they are in alphabetical order, according to iTunes.
I know it's not a big deal, but I'm a bit anal about lists and stuff on my iPod - and I'm sure I can't be the only one!!!
I could delete the whole list and drag it over again from iTunes, but that seems to put a second copy on my iPod.
Most perplexing
Charley

Charley,
I was waiting for someone to mention this. Gopha has noticed this very irritating phenomenon when Synching stuff across too as well. It's in perfect order in iTunes, but reverse order on the Pod.
The solution is simple I've found. Synchronise your iPod once to get the stuff across. And then resynchronise *a second time* by clicking the iPod and selecting "Update iPod" (or equivalent), and force it to synchronise again, without needing to disconnect/reconnect it.
This should do the trick - I found it does for me. I have a Playlist arranged by Most Recently Added - and it was always in the wrong order (ie. least recently added first, opposite to how I wanted it) - until I did things this way, and now the most recently added song is the first in the playlist.
Hope this helps and works for you too...
Kind regards,
Gopha

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