Getting Playlists back on Mac - music library was restored

I had to rebuild my G5 a while back. I restored all the music in my iTunes library but not the Playlists. The Playlists are on the iPod. Is there any way without using third party utilities I can get the Playlists back on the Mac. This does not involve copying music from the iPod to the Mac, because the music is already back on the Mac. I just need the Playlist definitions.
If I do need other software, any recommendations?
Thanks.

Hi Francisco,
Thanks for the reply. When searching on the software you recommended, I saw you provided the same reply a couple of weeks ago. I did not notice that reply when doing the original search on "Playlists", but thanks for replying without chastising me for an incomplete search.
It looks as though iGadget is a very complete package, which I will likely purchase in the future. I did try Senuti. I had two Playlists I wanted to copy from the iPod. Senuti handled the first one fine, and I was planning on purchasing it, but it stumbled on the second one. It kept saying it could not copy because an iTunes dialog was open, which was not the case. So I ended up not purchasing Senuti. For the second Playlist, I just manually created it and manually entered songs.
Thanks again, and GeorgeUK, hope the Francisco's reply was also helpful to you.
John

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