I also have this problem. I've never tried changing the sort order, so I'd never noticed it.
Slackware 10.2 (with patches)
Dropline 2.14.3
gtkpod 0.99.4 (compiled from source)
libgpod 0.3.2 (compiled from source)
Has anyone tried the gtkpod mailing list?
Don't know if it helps, but running gdb, this is what I get at the time of the crash:
Code:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1219602752 (LWP 16878)]
0xb7deb5c3 in gtk_tree_store_set_column_types ()
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0