Playlist sorting not alphabetical?

Can someone explain to me the method the iPod uses to sort a list of playlists? I can't make any sense of it, and I'm trying to name them so they show in a particular order.
For instance, here's the list of playlists, and how they are sorted in iTunes:
Apparently some characters in my playlist names won't appear in the apple forums(some asterisks), so here's a screenshot of the rest:
http://homepage.mac.com/ltcarter47/images/playlistsorting.png
Message was edited by: Sean C. Carter

As I found, playlists are sorted in their creation order within iTunes. I use iTunes on Mac, though my iPod is Windows formatted. I'm adding a new folder within another (existing) folder. Then I create subfolders and playlists within these newly created subfolders.
As a result, new folder in iTunes is positioned alphabetically within other peer-nested folders, but in my iPod (Classic 160G) this newly created folder appears as last. As for inner subfolders they are positioned just as in iTunes!
So, I can conclude, that the wrong positioning appears ONLY when there are EXISTING (and already alphabetically sorted) folders, and we add A NEW folder to the same nesting level.
I see the only possible reason -- the iTunes software has a bug -- while synching it should INSERT a new folder BETWEEN other existing folders but it only ADDS it to the folders list end.
As a solution I'll try to uncheck a root-level folder during synchronisation, then synch, then check it back and synch again and then look at the results. I yet not tried to do it, but I'll try today. I think it should resolve the issue.
If I'll have success then what wee need are two things:
-- uncheck all checks at the level, where a new folder has been added besides the first (in alphabetic order) folder, and synch (so we get a folder with the only "first" subfolder) , then check them back as you need and synch again. Now all other folders should be added in proper alphabetic order.
-- wait for a iTunes update, resolving this pretty obvious bug.
The only question appears -- do Apple coders themself use iPods or not??? I beleave they use iRiver :)))

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