Playlists not sorted right in iOS5

after installing iOS 5, my playlists are not sorted the way they are in iTunes, for example I got an intelligent playlist with a couple of rules, and sorted by "rating".
Then on iPhone 4, the playlist is sorted on another way, really weird bug cause if I display in iTunes the playlist inside the devide while plugged into the computer it shows as expected but on the go it's totally different.
I tried syncing it again and rebooting the device.

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HappyPants wrote:
Why can't my criteria simply be limit size to 14800MB ...
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HappyPants wrote:
After some thought, I chose to do: last skipped is not in the last 1 day.
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Now you're thinking
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