Smart Playlists and the Fifth Generation iPod

Does anyone know if the issue of Smart Playlists not auto-updating has been addressed in the 5th gen. iPod?
For more info. / background, please see:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301910

You may be interested in our Smart Playlist discussion here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1514307#1514307
Podcast-containing Smart Playlists are still coming to grief, and do not update dynamically:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1536677#1536677
and Level 2 Support have been notified about this:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1683550
Kind regards,
Gopha.

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