Fixed? No...

Thanks again to Debajyoti for pointing out where I might be able to find where amaroK stores playlists by default (that place is: ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/playlists/, by the way).

So I changed my scripts to go look for the playlists there. Initially I had complete success, but at this point, it's again unpredictable by me. Sometimes the scripts work, sometimes they don't.

Deb suggested that I look somewhere for amarok-specific help. I think I may take him up on this...:-P