Big Glitch, Bigger Bitch

I'm so frustrated right now. I've only had my new iPod touch for a little over a month so I haven't really had the time to discover any critical flaws, that is, until now. For some reason the majority of my Smart Playlists aren't syncing correctly. Narcissus (the touch) is clinging to old versions of those playlists. For instance, I have a Smart Playlist that keeps track of my least played songs and another of the most. The lists that exist within iTunes are obviously up-to-date. But the lists that exist on Narcissus seem to be holdovers from the very first sync. And no matter how many times I try to sync, I still wind up with same out-of-date lists. I don't know where that data is being collected from and it's driving me insane!!! I even went so far as to restore the iPod to the latest firmware and I still wind up with the same problem!!!

That are a few things that I could go through that might fix the problem. I should give those a try before I have a total meltdown. But the core of my frustration lies in the belief that this shouldn't be so difficult to fix! I shouldn't be jumping through all these hoops to fix something so simple. I'm wracking my brain and it's killing me. I hate glitches!!!

If worse comes to worse I might have to manually manage the music on Narcissus, which would be a real bitch. That would mean having to maintain the Smart Playlists I have now, and copying & pasting the data into a standard dead Playlist each time I felt like having an up-to-date playlist. That's hardly a solution and just something I'm not going to do. That would be ridiculous.

From what I can tell, iTunes backs up the touch's data somewhere on my system each time I sync. And the problem I had with the restoration lies in the fact that it's still here... somewhere. When I restored, I was given the option of recognizing this as a new iPod or backing up Narcissus' system preferences. I chose the new iPod settings, but named the iPod Narcissus again... which I think might have confused the system. I probably, inadvertently, restored the same fucked up data from before. But I can't be sure. I'm gonna give the restore another go and rename Narcissus and hope that all works well. But therein lies another frustration. I shouldn't have to hope. This should just work! And I'm gonna be more pissed off than ever if it doesn't. Each time I try something and it fails I spiral into a greater rage. A system should just work!

Ugh. I hate troubleshooting. I hate glitches. I hate the unforeseen. I'm hoping this problem is resolved quickly enough. I just hate this whole process. Not knowing what's wrong. I feel like I have a crying baby on my hands and I'm sorta freaking out. Especially when my baby came with a User's Manual. :P I didn't expect this. So I'm gonna go for the restore, think of a new name for my baby... If that doesn't work, I guess I'm gonna have to dive some forums and if all else fails I'm lucky enough to have Narcissus covered on the Apple Care Protection Plan for iPod & iTunes, so a Genius might be in our future. :P ;)


DS333, bitchy and hoping for the best.