Songs Not Playing In Order of Playlist

It's probably me... after buying four Ipods for my kids over the years I'm an old man trying to keep up!
I'm listening to talk-radio podcast downloads and there are three hours for each day. And I want to play them in order.
I copied the programs from my podcast download to a playlist where I dragged them into the right order. But they don't appear in that order on the Ipod.
It's not random; they are not being "shuffled." The days are just mixed up, like it's in alpha or some other order.
Also, I only checked the little box under the Music tab; not the one under the Podcasts tab. So it should be syncing to the playlist which I have put in the proper order.
Can any of you kids help this old man?
Grandpa Peter

I unchecked all the boxes, and resynced... so there was nothing on my Ipod. Then I checked them all and resynced so it loaed them all over again. Thought this might fix it.
They are still out-of-order, and I can't figure out the logic of the order. It's not alpha, nor in the order I list them. I will just have to keep track of which ones I listen to and delete them before I resync again.
What a pain!

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