Copy one playlist to iPod

Hi there,
My friend is creating a playlist for an event that she will be playing off her iPod. We would like to use my iPod as a backup, by copying only that particular playlist onto my iPod, rather then her entire library, or replacing mine. Is this even possible?
Thanks!

FYI for anybody else trying to do this, here is what I found. (It wasn't intuitive :-)
plug your ipod into the computer and open iTunes.
Select the device - "your" ipod.
Then go to the menu bar across the top and select music.
Hit "synch music" (you have to hit this before you can select "entire library" or "select lists")
Then select " select playlists..." and choose the lists you want.
Hit "Apply", wait for it to think, then when the button changes from "apply" to :sync", hit "sync".
My experience:
I had already synched this ipod, so an older version of my entire library was on there. When I hit synch, I got an error about some songs not being copied because they couldn't be listened to on the ipod (incompatible formats). OK. I hit ok and that dialogue box disappeared and then...
So, since most of the songs were already on there, the update was very quick - I didn't even see anything happen - I got no status showing things being copied,etc. So I thought something was wrong, but I looked at the content on my ipod and I see that it has indeed been updated.
The "Music" list (ie entire library??) is now gone from the iPod and I only see the playlists I just selected to copy.

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