Playlists not working?

Sorry if this seems all over the place but hope you understand
When I go into music, I select playlists then choose the playlist I want to play. But, when the playlist opens it plays the album that the playing song belongs to not the songs in the playlist.
eg. playlist > Rock and Roll > pick the song to start playing with then when I look at the song list to be played its only the songs from the album that the "now playing" song is from, I went back to playlists, selected the rock and roll playlist then press shuffle and it does the exact same thing....the playlist reverts to the album the "now playing" song is from.
Ive not got a clue whats happening. I made the plylist in itunes (I have the updated current version) then synced the ipod. The playlist is there on the ipod and when I look at it, it has all the songs I put into it. As I said it reverts to the album the song is from not the playlist.
Can anyone help please
Its the ipod touch 4g if that helps and its original not jailbroken

Its ok I think Ive sussed it. When your on the now playing screen and tap the top right icon it displays the album the song is from.

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