Importing playlists from iTunes 10 to older version

Hi,
I have a friend who's just copied his 80GB music library on his Macbook Pro(10.6.5) to his G5 (10.4.x). All is well with the music library, but he wants the Playlists from iTunes 10 on the Macbook to be transferred to the G5.
Does anyone have any ideas on the best method to batch export playlists only, into a single file? I checked out dougs Applescripts for iTunes and the nearest thing i found was 'create playlists based on albums'.
Also, is it the 'iTunes Music Library.xml' file that contains the playlists?
Would it be possible to import that iTunes 10 created file to an older version of iTunes (i can't test this at the moment...)
Thanks in advance

Am i missing something obvious or is it not possible to import a regular playlist from itunes onto the ipod?
You don't import playlist to the iPod. If you are manually managing, you drag it to the iPod.
If you are not manually managing, you auto-sync it.
When i tried to drag the finished playlist to the ipod it wouldn't let me.
Select the iPod in iTunes.
Is *Manually manage music* and videos ticked?

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