Why do some Smart Playlists Auto-Update while some don't?

I followed the old thread about auto-updating smart playlists not updating automatically on the iPod. Apparently the 2006-1-10 update fixes it, but some smart playlists still aren't updating for me. The simple rating-based playlists work (they update), but more complex smart playlists such as this do not work:
Match All Following Rules:
Podcast is true
Playcount is 0
Time is less than 11:00
Kind contains audio
According to this support document: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301910 smart playlists should update based on any criteria, but I'm not seeing that. Am I doing something wrong? What types of smart playlists have people gotten to work?
Thanks.

Thank you for keeping this discussion alive, and for the continued troubleshooting and evaluation.
I have yet to hear back from Level 2 Support regarding the Podcast-Smart Playlist issue, but in the meanwhile, http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1514307#1514307 remains active if people would like it to, and the most recently update from Level 2 is here: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1683550 (30 Jan).
Kind regards,
Gopha.

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