Success at last with playlists on Micro SDHC card

Thanks for the info on how to get playlists to work with Mediamonkey and a Clip Zip with music and playlists on the Micro SDHC card.  Unfortunately, the version of firmware I used (clipzip01.01.12) produces static noise between some track transitions.  I updated the firmware to the latest (01.18), and the static noise problem appears to be gone.  But also gone are my playlists when viewed in the playlists menu on the CZ.

Does anyone have a solution to both the static noise problem and the playlists on a Micro SDHC card problem?

I’ve read that the static noise might be caused by some tag data, and that I can use mp3tag to strip off all fields except a crucial three.  I was hoping I didn’t need to do that, as I would like to keep my tags the way they are.