How to restore lost playlists?

My daughter recently logged onto my computer (using her individual screen name) and opened ITunes. She later logged off her screen name, and I logged on.
when I logged on and opened ITUnes, all of the songs which historically appeared in ITunes were missing. It was blank. I opened the file on my hard drive which contained my songs and imported all of them back into ITunes. So far, so good. However, I observed that none of my playlists were restored. Is there a way to do this, short of manually recreating each one?
One thought occured to me. I have not connected my Ipod to my computer since this mishap occurred. This means that the playlists on my Ipod are still in their original condition. Is there a way to upload the playlist info from the Ipod to Itunes?
Any help would be appreciated.

Copying from iPod to Computer threads...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5044027&#5044027
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=893334&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=797432&#797432
Also these useful internet articles...
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/
http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/02/how-to-get-music-off-your-ipod/
http://playlistmag.com/secrets/2006/12/twowaystreet20/index.php
http://playlistmag.com/help/2005/01/2waystreet/
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