All is not lost, though, Cypher. You can create playlists in any format you like, and with the version 2.0 software you can do anything with a playlist that you could have done with a search (append, insert, replace). You can sort the playlists in your own desired order and turn off the alphabetical sorting of the playlists in the player's main menu (it's an option in emplode). You would have to scroll to the playlist instead of doing a search, but it can be done.

As for punching the letters directly, you could use PINs instead and make the PIN digits correspond to the desired letters.

And the greek font can't be too terribly tough to do as long as Unicode isn't needed.