Deleted playlist.....help!

Hey all, i have just purchased an nano. i had the kid across the road put songs onto it for me because i am computer impared. Some how(dont ask me how) i wiped off my playlist. Now when i try and sync music it keeps telling me that, "songs on the ipod(name of ipod)cannot be updated because all of the playlists selected for syncing no longer exist. I tried to create a new playlist, i even put music into it. The **** thing still wont sync. My little ipod has no music for it master. Someone out there must have expierence this before and could help me. Oh yeah make your explaination real simple, just like me.

This problem arises when you use 'Sync Music - Selected playlists' to sync your iPod and then delete the playlist it has been updating from. Most people use this setting when the iPod is smaller than the iTunes library. If you haven't deliberately chosen this method, adding a smaller iPod to a larger library for the first time causes iTunes by default to make a new playlist called something along the lines of "Owner's iPod". If you for any reason delete it, you will not be able to sync your iPod.
Open iTunes and create a playlist to update your iPod from, call it -iPod to make it the first playlist in Sources. You can make this a normal playlist and drag whatever you want to it or you can make it a random Smart playlist. If you are making a smart playlist limit it to just less than the size of your iPod (for example 3700MB for a 4G iPod Nano). Now connect your iPod and when it appears in the Source list click on the iPod icon to bring up the preference tabs in the main pane. Go to the Music tab and choose Sync Music and the Selected playlists radio button. Choose the playlist you just made from the selection and click Apply:
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