Re-arranging playlists

Hey, so I have a few playlists that i go to at key moments. They have a nice order to them, but sometimes when i am driving or walking I want the selection of songs in my playlists but not in the order that i created them in itunes. I notice that ipod will not shuffle within the playlist itself (whynot apple?).
Fine i thought, I will just re-arrange them in itunes and save it as a new playlist.
so i went to my playlist and clicked on the "name" tab and la dee dah my playlist is now arranged alphabetically. Cool, that is good enough for me. I just saved it as a re-ordered version of the original playlist.
BUT, when i went to play it on the ipos it plays the original order, as if rearranging with the tabs in itunes does not affect the actual order. How LAME! The software for the ipod refuses to shuffle songs in your playlist, and you cant easily make a manual permanent reorderd version of the song easily! Im guessing that if i physically drag each song to another location in the playlist everything will work, but that will be so utterly annoying to do for a 100 song playlist!
Does anyone have a solution to the problem of a stale playlist order without having to do the painstaking manual shuffle method?

more info on the "Copy To Play Order" command if interested...
iTunes: How to Use the "Copy to Play Order" Command
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93348-en
Use iTunes' Copy to Play Order to control iPod song order
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050820164254360
iPod: Copy To Play Order
http://chadn.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/ipod-copy-to-play-order/
Copy to Play Order
http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=19060
and so on.
Patrick

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