Synch playlist in order

Noted re: MSC mode. I was previously set to ‘Auto Detect’ which did work in whatever WMP Vista has. I wonder what other devices use .pla playlists. There’s many choices in Realplayer that I tried, most end up being .pls. I was hoping maybe I could choose another manufacturer’s settings and use it with the Sansa Clip. The drawback of WMP for me is when burning an mp3 disk, which

they refer to as a Data disk, there’s no playlist at all, the songs play alphabetically. At least iTunes will number them in order, effectively making a playlist on the CD.