I was putzin' around trying to figure how to solve this natty little issue and came up with the following. It is not elegant and requires some active participation and sacrifice on your part, but it does work.

For English the popular beginning is THE which clogs up the STARTS WITH 'T' playlist. Le in French, Die in German, Ha in Bulgarian might cause the same problem for those playlists (L, D, H). The following pertains to English.

1. Create a Smart Playlist for Titles starting with THE.
2. When populated, select all files, <ctl>A on a PC works fine. Right Click and bring up the properties dialog.
3. Change the Comment Field to some unique set of characters, e.g., qwerty12345 (with all files selected this performs a batch replacement). Sorry about messing up your comment but that looks like the least damaging field.
4. Now go to your STARTS WITH 'T' playlist and add a filter for - Comment Does Not Contain qwerty12345 - or whatever unique string you chose.

Now all the 'THE' titles should be gone from the 'T' playlist and show up in the 'THE' playlist.

Note: I tried changing the comment to 'The' and use COMMENT IS NOT 'The', but that failed and the 'The' files still showed in the 'T' playlist. IS NOT 'qwerty12345' does work, however.

Tom