I've named all my playlists the same way. I also put the year before the album names to make them come up in the proper order. However, with the new playlist ordering this won't be necessary anymore.

BUT, within a track's ID3 data I don't do this type of name changing. If the band is The Beatles, then the artist ID3 tag reads "The Beatles"

And as far as 'N Sync goes, I'd just delete any of those tracks - problem solved. :)

ID3 tag data serves a primarily a display purpose for me. So therefore I keep things entered in the tags the way I want to see them displayed. There are a number of products which do title parsing for ignoring things like "The" and preceding punctuation. These are what make the difference between creative engineering and simply relying on a slightly modified ASCII sort (it would suck to have lower-case letters sorted after the full range of caps, wouldn't it? :)

Bruno