diff --git a/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistReorder.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistReorder.dom.test.tsx
index b085f2b6..768e5744 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistReorder.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistReorder.dom.test.tsx
@@ -63,12 +63,17 @@ afterEach(() => {
 const movie = (id: string) =>
   ({ id, type: "movie", title: `Movie ${id}`, year: 2020, thumb: "" }) as unknown as PlexCard;
 
-it("writes the order the server accepted into the detail cache", async () => {
-  vi.spyOn(api, "plexPlaylist").mockResolvedValue({
-    id: 5,
-    title: "Films",
-    items: [movie("1"), movie("2"), movie("3")],
-  });
+it("writes the order the server accepted into the detail cache, without waiting for a refetch", async () => {
+  // The refetch that same handler schedules (round 7) must not be what makes the cache right: the
+  // point of the write is that a re-entry inside the 30 s staleTime renders the accepted order
+  // immediately, with no request at all. So the refetch is HELD OPEN here — if this assertion
+  // needed it to land, deleting the write would still pass and round 6's fix would be unguarded.
+  let calls = 0;
+  vi.spyOn(api, "plexPlaylist").mockImplementation(() =>
+    ++calls === 1
+      ? Promise.resolve({ id: 5, title: "Films", items: [movie("1"), movie("2"), movie("3")] })
+      : new Promise(() => {}),
+  );
   const reorder = vi.spyOn(api, "plexReorderPlaylist").mockResolvedValue(undefined as never);
   const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
   render(
@@ -88,3 +93,38 @@ it("writes the order the server accepted into the detail cache", async () => {
     ).toEqual(["2", "1", "3"]),
   );
 });
+
+it("refetches the detail too, so a membership change that landed meanwhile is not clobbered", async () => {
+  // `next` is the membership of the render that started the drag, and `reorder_playlist` only
+  // touches the rating_keys it is handed — it never ratifies that list. So writing `next` into the
+  // detail cache silently drops anything that landed in between (a row removed from another
+  // surface, an item added elsewhere), and with only the LIST key invalidated nothing corrected it:
+  // staleTime is 30 s and refetchOnWindowFocus is off, so the phantom row stayed on screen for as
+  // long as the view was mounted and the next drag persisted an order built from it. The YouTube
+  // sibling invalidates the detail key right after writing it; this half did not (round 7).
+  let calls = 0;
+  vi.spyOn(api, "plexPlaylist").mockImplementation(() =>
+    Promise.resolve(
+      ++calls === 1
+        ? { id: 5, title: "Films", items: [movie("1"), movie("2"), movie("3")] }
+        : { id: 5, title: "Films", items: [movie("2"), movie("1")] }, // "3" is gone server-side
+    ),
+  );
+  const reorder = vi.spyOn(api, "plexReorderPlaylist").mockResolvedValue(undefined as never);
+  const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+  render(
+    <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>
+      <PlexPlaylistView playlistId={5} onBack={() => {}} onPlay={() => {}} />
+    </QueryClientProvider>,
+  );
+  await screen.findByText("Movie 3");
+  act(() => dragEnd.fire({ active: { id: "1" }, over: { id: "2" } }));
+  await waitFor(() => expect(reorder).toHaveBeenCalledWith(5, ["2", "1", "3"]));
+  // The refetch the accepted write schedules brings the real membership back.
+  await waitFor(() => expect(screen.queryByText("Movie 3")).toBeNull());
+  await waitFor(() =>
+    expect(
+      qc.getQueryData<{ items: PlexCard[] }>(qk.plexPlaylist(5))?.items.map((i) => i.id),
+    ).toEqual(["2", "1"]),
+  );
+});
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.tsx b/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.tsx
index a4cc0e58..6b3890e3 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.tsx
@@ -437,6 +437,13 @@ export default function PlexPlaylistView({
         qc.setQueryData<{ items: PlexCard[] }>(qk.plexPlaylist(playlistId), (old) =>
           old ? { ...old, items: next } : old,
         );
+        qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.plexPlaylist(playlistId) });
+        // …and then REFETCH it, exactly as the sibling does. `next` is this render's membership, and
+        // the server only reorders the keys it was given — so anything that landed meanwhile (a row
+        // removed from another surface, an item added elsewhere) is clobbered by that write. With
+        // only the list key invalidated nothing corrected it: staleTime is 30 s and
+        // refetchOnWindowFocus is off, so the wrong membership stayed on screen for as long as the
+        // view was mounted and the next drag persisted an order built from it (round 7).
         qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.plexPlaylists() });
       })
       .catch((e: unknown) => {