Where is Purchase date in smart playlists menu?

I recently had to buy a new MAC as my old g5 quite on me. With new macbook pro came iTunes 11, the bane of music enthusiasts the world over. Now one of my most used playlists, a smart list of recently purchased music is useless.The purchase date delineation in the smart playlist was changed to date modified which is not at all the same thing. Now there is no purchase date delineation in the smart playlist setup menu even though you can still put it in column header of the window bar. Can anyone recommend a work around for this? iTunes 11 wasn't supported on my old g5 and I didn't realize how lucky I was.

Purchase Date and Date Added are by no means the same thing. If you are building an iTunes library on a new computer, or remove and then re-add songs (eg edownload songs from Music Match), they will no longer have the original add date.

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Hi, all
I keep all episodes of prefered podcast programs (like business week's cover stories), i sort all episodes of each program by release date, which i believe is the most accurate sorting method.
When i create a smart playlist of one particular program, i find the order of episodes in that program's playlist are all wrong, and there is no way to sort them in right order, which is, by release date. Unless i manually ordering them.
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