Reshuffle Smart Playlists Broken in 7.6.1

The other day all of the songs disappeared from my iTunes Library. Thanks to Time Machine, I restored it. But, I could not figure out why it happened in the first place. Then when resyncing my Nano, I used a script I have from dougscripts.com which reshuffles all of my smart playlists (most of which are there just for use on the Nano and iPhone). Lo-and-behold! The whole list of songs disappeared from my library again. So, I am wondering if anyone else has had any similar problem and if there was a fix. I went to dougscripts.com, but the site seems to be having issues today. Thanks for any insights.

Why not actually fix "shuffle" for podcast smart playlists?????

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