Problems shuffling playlists

When I try to shuffle certain playlists (On the Go and Purchased), for some reason only some of the songs get shuffled and the rest are left out. For On the Go, it will shuffle about 2/3 of the songs in the playlist, and for Purchased, it will only shuffle 4 out of 64 songs!
Does anybody know how to fix this?
thanks

Actually I thought at first you couldn't do this in a smartplaylist, but actually you can, you just have to turn off the "Organizers" in the header. What I mean by this is where it has the number of the song, right before the name of the song (1 2 3 4 5....10) you hit the blank header for that colum Now you can drag and drop songs where you want them in the list
Hitting this "Blank header" basicly turns off the organizers that are on or turned on when you hit the other headers like "Artist" "Date Added" "Album" ect ect

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