Song order rearranges in playlists

I listen to music on my iPhone 4 (6.1.3 - not enough space to upgrade to ios7) when working out and traveling. Recently I tried to change the order of songs in a couple of playlists and add new songs and the changes won't keep. For instance when editing the playlist, if I move a song from the bottom of the playlist to somewhere in the middle when I hit done the song i moved will disappear from where I had it back to the bottom of the list and another song from the bottom will take that spot.
I have tried moving songs in several playlists and the same thing happens. I will edit the order in the playlist to be what I want but as soon as I hit done it either reverts to the way it was or songs will just be in random spots.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Well, while the playlist in iTunes and the playlist on the iPhone, as it appears in iTunes, match, the problem is that the iPhone seems to be stripping the instruction to order the songs randomly. That instruction is given in the 'limit to 30 GB selected by random' line. The list on the iPhone is in order from least recently played to most recently played. The highlighted column in the playlist is the leftmost 'number' column not the Last Played column. Any clues hiding out there?

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