Dragging playlists seems to "freeze" iTunes

(This is related to my other posting today.)
I currently manage my iPod manually (no automatic sync).
To drag and drop songs or albums works great. Of course it becomes
a bit slow when I drag a lot of things at once.
However, every time I try to drag a playlist, iTunes seems to freeze
when the dragging mouse-cursor reaches the iPod-device in the left sidebar.
Yesterday I waited for almost an hour to see if it would recover, but I
had to kill the iTunes process.
Is there a better way to add playlists to the iPod?
Thanks,
Daniel

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