How do I keep playlists if I restore or upgrade iOS?

Iphone is having trouble staying connected to home wifi, and its battery is "consumed." So recently, I did backup and restore from my computer, and then upgraded to iOS 7, from 6.
Naturally, after the upgrade, my purchased songs were all in the cloud, and my playlists were all gone from my phone.
Sure I may have not properly used a setting beforehand.
Anyhow, as I re-build playlists, how do I keep them on I-tunes for next time, when I get a new phone in the not-too-distant future?
Also, if I purchase songs, will the .mp4's keep physically downloading to my authorized and primary computer, or will the physical files be in the cloud and no longer accessible as physical files?
On the battery issue, if anyone wants to address that, is it possible the consumed battery is a factor in my phone not staying connected to home wifi?
Apple people at the tech support store said my phone antenna was detecting wifi fine, so they did not consider the phone damaged.
Any help to any of these things would be appreciated. Thank you.

When I want to set up a playlist, do I have a choice whether that playlist is hosted by Itunes and the Music Library, or, it goes on the phone? Or both? It looks like I can build a playlist for EITHER the library or the phone.
Also, I re-downloaded purchases into the Library and then drag-and-dropped it all onto the phone. The cloud icon stopped being next to the songs on the phone at that point, but now cloud icons are re-eappearing all over the place. How can I get rid of the cloud icons for good? Not into that.
I keep the physical .mp4's in folders on the computer and I bring those to the library and to the phone. I don't mind the purchased songs being held by Apple into the cloud, but I want all of that in the background and rarely engaged.

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