i've tried a couple of things. a) going to the browse view and selecting entire /media/mmc1 as a playlist, or more conventionally going to the "musical note" view (not sure what this is called) and loading either an album or artist onto the playlist. doesn't matter whether i turn shuffle on before or after the playlist is loaded. when i play it, the songs all play in the order listed, which is also the order in which they were loaded. i can't imagine that this wouldn't have been picked up before, so i'm still not sure if i'm missing something.