Shuffle Recently Added Playlist (or any playlists!)

How can you shuffle recently added playlist music? I know that you can click the normal shuffle songs option, but if you wanted only to shuffle the recently added music or music on certain playlists and not the whole library on the ipod, how do you do it? Can you do it? Thanks in advance!
- Nyala
iBook G4, 20GB Photo 4G, 80GB Photo 4G, 30GB Video 5G Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Thanks Bryan! It worked like a charm, I thought there was a way, but everyone told me I was wrong, glad you were wandering the boards, cheers!
- Nyala
iBook G4, 20GB Photo 4G, 80GB Photo 4G, 30GB Video 5G Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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Recently Added:
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