Playlist order on iOS

Does anyone out there have any tricks to keep an iOS playlist in order by Album Name? With iTunes 11 I now have to manually drag and drop albums in a large playlist. I've tried many things, but the only things that I could get to work require a lot of effort. A call to Apple didn't help. Their level 3 person basically said that having the play order in iOS match the play order in iTunes is no longer intended. Strange but true. They did give me a workaround to try: new playlist. That works once, but new albums added to the playlist go to the end instead of in the intended order.