[cscott1]

In the ui settings. When setting up your widgets if you want to use your smart playlists there are two methods to assign your playlists to the widget one works and the other is buggy. So the one you want to use the path is as follows. Edit menu shortcuts/widgets/select widget/default widgets/smart shortcuts. The buggy option is when you select the smart shortcuts option before selecting default widgets. I'm not sure why it didn't use to be that way in fact it was quicker loading widgets because they didn't have to go through skin helper.

I never use either of these paths for playlists.

I go to video library/playlist/

There you will find both skin playlists and user playlists.

That makes sense, still tho the path I mentioned that is buggy is the most direct path and the one most people would use if they were setting up their widgets for the first time. I just happened to figure it out by dumb luck really. The widgets not loading on reboot was bugging me so I thought reloading the skins defaults might fix the problem so I did that however when I started to assign my playlists the same behavior remained. I noticed it was only the smart playlists and my other widgets loaded fine so after a lil head scratching I started looking for a new path to my playlists and voila the new path corrected the behavior. At any rate hope you guys look into it to keep others from having the issue in the future thanks.