Well, I'm now using v.108 and I thought I might have this finally working. But no.
I wiped the iPod with apple software, initialized with MC, and tried again. I had a couple of issues with getting stuff loaded, as I had moved some files from outside MC, and it told me some files were missing. i cancelled the synch, and corrected the library. I went to synch again and it told me it couldn't sync some thousands of files because they were not supported file types. They were jpegs. it did not tell me this the last time it tried to synch. I found that wierd, and looked in the options and jpegs were not selected to be handled by MC. I changed that (I don't want MC to handle jpegs, but wanted to see it that was my problem), and tried to synch again. This time it worked. I had to cancel the synch as I had to leave and wanted music, so I cancelled the synch. I looked on the iPod and saw that the music was there, as were most of the pictures (it was almost finished), but no playlists for music, just for pictures. I selected the comedy playlist and it went into slideshow mode and played the pictures centered perfectly and in order. Only problem was that they weren't the pictures from the comedy playlist they were from another playlist. i tried a few different ones and got whatever the iPod felt like playing for me. They looked fine, but weren't in any order. i do not have random selected.
I got back and re-synched the iPod and it finished. i now have playlists but the pictures do not play any longer, at all. If I go to the first listed photo playlist, it and select play, it will play one photo (not from that playlist), and no more. When I exit back to the menu, the yellow photo selector has moved many pictures down the list, as if it was playing the playlist, but it doesn't display anything. None of the other playlists play anything, although the selector moves as if it is playing.
Please tell me what i can do to help get this fixed? I really want to be able to show people my photos, but i can't.
In the meantime, I'll initialize, and re-synch again; but I don't think it will help.
When it was almost working, I had maybe 20,000 photos on the iPod. Fully synched, it's about 35,000 photos. both with about 6000 songs.