Yeah I just found the sort order button (seems you can right click on the play list as well)

The alt-drag only works for playlists, not albums (or stuff from the soup view) is this intentional?

You're right about the bug, by the way, its vicious. It doesn't seem to matter whether you have clicked on "delete track" or not, its gone.

I see what you mean about the root page. I've always been dropping my imports into the playlist tree, which both creates a new playlist and adds them to the soup. I hadn't really understood that I could have stuff in the soup view and not in a playlist (yes I know thats what the empeg is all about, but it didn't make sense when the only way to play a track was from a playlist)