Retaining Playlist Order

I just upgraded to an iPhone 5 a little while back and I've noticed that no matter how I sort my smart playlists track-by-track on iTunes, that order is never preserved under the Playlists tab on my iPhone, which changes it to alphabetical by artist name. Checking off "album is a compilation of songs by various artists" doesn't change how the playlist gets ordered. Is there any way to preserve every part of the playlist order? Because right now it makes things like soundtrack albums jumbled messes!

Well, I have done that - pretty intuitive actually and it is easy to manipulate in iTunes. That is a strength.
But now I can't seem to get a playlist onto the Nano. I select 'Music' on the iPod in iTunes, drag a playlist from iTunes (which was created and named on iTunes as discussed), but end up with only the songs - no playlist - on the Nano .
I have the latest SW on iTunes and iPod.
Thanks...Gary

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