Aha! The menus!

I looked for some channel selection there earlier but must have missed it somehow.
To change to another channel on the same frequency I just have to go:
Playback > Program > ____
A new problem though. When selecting channel I get this menu:
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/4751 ... tchxe4.png
There are a lot of items on the menu. Most are just empty (the ones with numbers only). But even among the ones with text only a few are real working channels (the other are channels for other regions not working in my area but for some reason still picked up by the tuner). Then there's a similar menu for another frequency.
Is there some more convenient way to access the channels in VLC than through those menus?
Is it perhaps possible to make a playlist where each entry selects a specific channel?
(Another problem, BTW: swedish characters ÅÄÖ are replaced with squares in the channel names, as shown by the screencap)
edit:
When I click "advanced" during tuner setup I later get a complex settings string in the bottom input box. Example:
dvb-t:// :dvb-frequency=5222000 :dvb-bandwidth=-1 :dvb-caching=300 :dvb-frequency=11954000 :dvb-inversion=2 :dvb-polarisation="H" :dvb-network-id=0 :dvb-azimuth=0 :dvb-elevation=0 :dvb-longitude=0 :dvb-lnb-lof1=0 :dvb-lnb-lof2=0 :dvb-lnb-slof=0 :dvb-fec=9 :dvb-srate=27500000 :dvb-modulation=-1 :dvb-code-rate-hp=-1 :dvb-code-rate-lp=-1 :dvb-bandwidth=-1 :dvb-guard=-1 :dvb-transmission=-1 :dvb-hierarchy=-1
Under Tools > Media Information... > Codec Details > _____
there is a program number listed for each channel. Example: "[Program 5800]". My hunch is that I need to input that "5800" somewhere among the parameters above. But where?