How do I copy Playlists to my iPod nano 3G without duplicating the songs?

Question

I've created a few playlists in iTunes. These are "best of" Playlists - for example 6 tracks that I really like from an album of 10 tracks.
Now the entire album, in each case, is already on the iPod. When I drag the Playlist to the iPod though, it copies the 6 tracks to the iPod, even though the tracks are already on the iPod. This causes needless capacity-wasting duplication. What I want is to copy the information in the Playlist, *not the songs themselves*, so that on the iPod I can select the Playlist & listen to it, with the iPod playing the 6 tracks out of the 10 that are already stored, not playing 6 duplicate tracks that don't need to be there in the first place. Is there any way to achieve this?
This is a similar problem to the one I encountered with album artwork (see my earlier topic here: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7921664) - needless capacity-wasting duplication - which isn't entirely solvable due to bad design of the iPod software. I suspect the Playlist problem might be similar unfortunately.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Wouldn't it work if you just create the new playlist in iTunes, then find the songs you want from there orginal location, right click on them and select add to playlist? If you want to select multiple songs, just hold down the 'alt' or 'ctrl' button down while selecting, and then sync your Ipod after you're done creating the new playlist.
I hope this helped.
Edit: Oh just a note- I'm not sure if the 'alt' or 'ctrl' trick works with Macs
Message was edited by: Spectra09