Copying songs using playlists

Ok so I have manually added my music to my touch, now what I want to do is to restore it and copy the music back on, but I don't want to have to manually go through my library again to copy files. Is there a way that I can use a playlist to copy files over?
What I am thinking is that I can create a playlist of all the songs currently on the touch, copy this playlist back to itunes, restore my touch- then will the act of copying the playlist from itunes back onto the touch automatically copy all associated tracks aswell? Or is there a better way of doing this (i.e. creating a separate library on itunes for my touch?)
Thanks
B

maybe I've not been clear - I only want to use this playist once just to copy the associated tracks over first time.
For example - say I have a blank ipod touch with no tracks on it, and I have a playlist in Itunes on my mac with a large selection of tracks in it. If I copy this playlist over to the touch will itunes also copy over all the tracks as well, or would I have to do this manually?

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