Getting playlists back on my re-imaged laptop

Hi, my laptop was re-imaged about a month ago. I had my music on an external hard drive, and it is now back on my laptop. But my playlists are on my ipod, and I want to keep some of them (even though some songs have been "shedded" from the playlists over time - don't know a better term to describe). What will happen if I plug my ipod into the laptop? Will itunes detect the playlists and bring them back into itunes? I don't want to lose some of the playlists.

Hey there,
Since your iPod is synced with another computer, the iTunes on your new laptop will ask you if you would like to erase and sync, transfer purchases, or Cancel. You will want to cancel, if you still want to be able to transfer playlists from your iPod to iTunes.
I would check out YamiPod for accomplishing what you would like. You can actually just use this third party utility to copy all the music from your iPod to your iTunes library if you wanted. It has excellent tutorials on how to use it as well located under the "docs" link. Hope this helps.
http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/
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