Copy iPod Playlists to iTunes?

I have a 30GB iPod w/video and a Windows XP computer that just had its motherboard replaced. Now that I'e reinstalled all my apps, including iTunes, my old Playlists are gone. I still have them on my iPod, and the MP3s are all on my external hard drive (thank god), so how do I restore my playlists in iTunes?
Thanks!
Kim

There are several third party utilites to do this task... I use PodUtil http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/software/podutil.php.
It will take a back up of your ipod and update your itunes inc playlists, it copies the videos too but does not copy the contacts/calender/notes folders... It available as a free down load inc. nag screens or £10 without. Works well for me and has got me out of a couple of stickie moments!

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I found out an easy way....
With iPod connected to iTunes, right click on the iPod playlist you want to export, choose the Export option on the menu that appears.
iTunes will prompt for a location and format to save the file. Save playlist as an XML file using whatever name and location you want (I saved as "songs.XML" to my desktop).
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There may be a mesage, "Some of the songs in the (filename).XML were not imported because they could not be fund". This is because the songs you are importing have to already be in your iTunes library.
I just did this with my kid's iPod and it worked great. I found this tip on Apple Support Communities (discussions.apple.com/thread/2577582?start=0&tstart=0). It was posted by SpyglassSally and my original search question in Goole was was, "How do i copy a playlist from an iPod to iTunes".
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I'm having problems transfering the playlists i've created from itunes to a mp4 player. It's not an ipod, and everytime i try to do this operation, the songs show up not by the order in the playlist but by alphabetical order. Is there any way to copy the playlist without loosing the order of the songs and directly, - i mean, without having to copy song by song to a folder in the mp4 player -, like it happens with the ipod? If so, how?
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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Copy iPod Playlists to iTunes?

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