IPod Playlists & Ratings ~ Restore How  To iTunes?

Hi,
I have a 40GB iPod Photo which I am sad to say is now completely full, and can no longer hold all of my iTunes tracks.
Unfortunately, I had to do a fresh install & Erase of my G5 iMac and therefore lost my playlists and ratings.
I did back them up and copied / imported them back into iTunes, but the Playlists were all mixed up and empty and the Ratings missing.
What I want to do is restore the Ratings that are on my iPod (I am not too bothered about the Playlists being restored) back into my copy of iTunes v 7.
This is because I have far too many tracks for me to have to start all over again, and I would probably end up with some differences.
My iPod is at present set Manual because as I said it is full now, and unable to accommodate all my tracks.
Can anyone here please tell me if it is possible and if so how, to restore the Ratings back to iTunes.
Once the Ratings are back in iTunes, I dont mind if I have loose the tracks on the iPod because they are all fully backed up.
Hope you can help.
20' iMac G5 PowerPC (iSight) 1.5GB Ram   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   iPod Photo 40GB

Check out PodWorks 2.8.5 You can read about it here: Version Tracker It is shareware but only 8 bucks and will download from the iPod all the music and meta data including star ratings, play counts etc. 8 bucks would have to be preferable to manually re-entering the ratings.
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