HOW DO I GET MY SONGS BACK ON MY IPOD???

I accidentally removed my 4th Gen photo ipod from my mac without properly unmounting it, and it went into "disk mode". It would n't allow me to get out of this mode, and itunes nor the finder would see the ipod when it was connected.
Oddly enuff, prosoft engineering's Data Rescue II was able to see it.
I used data rescue II to back up all the data on it. I was successful in this. then i restored the iPod to factory settings (erased it).
here's the problem: data rescue created 2 folders on the volume i recovered to:
A "CBR" folder, which contains and "Audio" folder, "Documents" folder, "Images" folder, etc... The Audio folder has more folders in it, which are titled by the type of files they contain. For instance, AIFF, MP3, m4a, WAV, respectively. All my music is within these files according to their file type. The names of teh files are file00001.aif or .mp3 or whatever, but when imported into itunes, the proper song title appears... this is good.
the second folder is titled "iPod", and it contains, the generally hidden files DesktopDB, DesktopDF, Finder, ReadMe, and System.
My question, is there a way to use these folders (CBR and iPod) to get my songs back into my ipod (with playlists)? I realize that I can import the folders into iTunes and everything would be good, but I have 2 macs and I manually manage playlists and songs, so the source of the songs that were on my ipod came from 1 mac or the other. The 2 macs each have their own playlists that I don't want to destroy... I need to simply get the backed up songs back onto the ipod, without having to go thru iTunes. That woudl be ideal.
Talk back to me, if you can.
Thanks

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