Why is my iPhone playlist bugged?

For some reason even though ive updated to the most recent itunes of 1/1/2012 and even updated my phones software
whatever playlist i create for my iPhone on iTunes does not sync correctly
for example if i sorted my songs by date added on iTunes it will show my iPhone connected to my computer with the playlists and the correct order that i want
However, My iPhone will show the playlist completely different and the songs will be scrambled in an order with no pattern
Trying to adjust the playlists via the actual iPhone does not work as they return to their original state
can anyone help me?
iPhone 4 version 5.0.1
iTunes version 10.5

Yes, I'm definitely finding some weird bugs when it comes to iTunes syncing with iPhone. If I change information for a song in iTunes and then try to sync to iPhone, the iPhone usually ignores the change. Or sometimes it will have some other weird behavior. For instance, if I change the genre of an album in iTunes from 'rock' to 'indie', then sync to iPhone, when I check the genre list in iPhone, I'll notice that album will still be under 'rock'. The really weird thing is it will also create a duplicate 'rock' genre and put it in the list next to 'indie'. So there would be duplicate genres inthe genre list, and not in alphabetical order. Also that album will be listed under both 'rock' genre listings. Not sure if that all made sense. It's a little hard to explain because it's so weird.
In any case, there is a work around that's not too painful. What I've done is just erase those tracks/albums from my iPhone that are refusing to sync correctly. When I sync with iTunes again, that song gets re-downloaded with the correct information. Becca, in your case, if you haven't yet, try erasing the playlist from your phone, and letting it download again when you sync. It's a bit of a chore to have to do this often, especially when changing information for whole groups of songs, so hopefully Apple will fix this soon. I'm going to post this to see if others have the same problem.
Side note- I JUST updated to the newest iTunes (10.5.3.3) like yesterday so we'll see if these bugs keep happening. I forget which version I had before.
windows 7 64bit
itunes 10.5.3.3 (as of yesterday)
iphone 4s
ios 5.0.1

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