Playlist play ID changes between loading

[ralbright]

Trying to use HTTP Commands to launch specific videos in an escape room. Get things working in one puzzle, then relaunch VLC to test things coming in fresh and the playlist items are off by 1. (Video file ID 25 is now required to call file ID 26 to play the same video file.) This is loading a specific playlist that isn't changing so I cannot understand why it is doing this. Does anyone have any ideas?

Looking at the playlist, a video file that I want to launch shows as ID 23 in the XML playlist file, but once loaded in a clean load of VLC (closing program, relaunching and opening playlist), If I send the command:
http://172.16.40.99:8080/requests/statu ... play&id=23 via a NodeRed HTTP command (with basic authentication), it plays file ID 18. Then the next load, same command plays file ID 19. And then the third load it was on file ID 21. It doesn't make any sense. Am I really missing something easy here?