Greenleaf,
I work on MediaMonkey and am really happy that you're making good use of it to sync with the Android G1. We don't have any Android phones, but from what I see of your description to sync with the Android, it acts much the same as many USB Mass Storage MP3 Players.
In your tutorial, you described how to manually sync music and playlists using MediaMonkey. MediaMonkey also supports automated syncing, which I find to be easier, in general. Please let me know if this works or not on your phone:
1) Mount your microSD card to your computer by doing one of the following:
a) Inserting it into an SD Card Reader
b) Attaching your phone to the PC via USB, after first making sure that the
Home > Settings > Data > SD card & phone storage > Use for USB storage check box is selected.
2) With the card mounted, click on the 'v' button next to the Device Synchronization button, and make sure that the mounted SD Card is checked off and that Auto-sync is enabled. Then configure the options as you described. i.e.
a) Select Options > Device configuration, and set the 'Sync Tracks to:'
\Music\<Album Artist>\<Album>\<Title>
b) Check off 'Copy Playlists' and click the Playlist 'Options' button and
configure the destination to: \Music\Playlists\
3) Here's where things differ a bit. At this point you can set which Tracks MediaMonkey should Automatically sync.
a) Go to the Auto-sync list tab and choose which Artists, Playlists, Books, Podcasts you'd like to sync
In general, I'll choose a few favorite Artists + some Playlists + a couple of AutoPlaylists (e.g. 'Favorites - Not Heard Recently)
If you have the Gold version, you can create an AutoPlaylist such as 2 GB of Classic Rock Tracks with rating > 3, not listened 2 in last 2 weeks.
b) In the Auto-Sync Options tab, you can enable 'Delete tracks that aren't in the Auto-sync list from the device', but make sure to specify in the Exceptions Folder, which top-level folders not to delete.
c) Set the auto-conversion options for the device if you want tracks to be converted on the fly (e.g. M4A --> MP3)
4) Click the Device Sync button. This will cause everything from the Auto-sync list to sync to the phone, deleting any Tracks that aren't on the Sync list. Then if you want something else, you can manually copy any tracks/playlists as you'd previously described.
Hopefully this will work for you.
-Rusty