IPod says there's no music - iTunes shows all songs are there

I have a 160 gig iPod Classic that has over 14,000 songs on it and 200+ smart playlists (I leave about 400 meg free for any "new" CD I might get).
Yesterday morning, I added several additional smart playlists from iTunes and ejected my iPod. I waited until the screen said "OK to Disconnect" and took the iPod off of the USB charger/connector, but noticed that the screen didn't change. Soon a white line started appearing along the bottom from left to right so I figured it was updating it's database (similar to how iTunes does that sometimes after you exit). I waited and waited after the line was all the way to the right and, after about 20 minutes, rebooted the iPod. When things finally were back to what looked like normal, the iPod didn't do anything.
Later in the day I reconnected it back to iTunes and iTunes said everything was still there on the iPod so I ejected and waited for it to return to normal - which it did. I go into Playlists to start one up and the screen says "No Playlists." I tried the other categories and they all said "No [category]" as well.
Anyway, last night I bit the bullet and did a "Restore" on the iPod from within iTunes (which, of course, wiped out everything on the iPod). I then spent SEVEN HOURS getting everything back the way it was (I have about 200 gig worth of songs so I can't copy everything and there HAS to be a better way to copy smart playlists - something for a separate post I guess). At this point I had all the playlists copied again plus about half the music. I made one final temporary playlist that would import the remaining songs while I slept and, finally, went to bed.
This morning I ejected the iPod, went and had breakfast to give it plenty of time to update itself then, once it was back to normal, I tried it and... "No Playlists," "No Artists," etc. Needless to say I wanted to yell and break things (but I didn't) - I don't have a lot of time to be dealing with this issue right now, but I work from home and need music playing in the background...
Now, here are the weird parts. A couple of album covers from my collection are scrolling across the iPod screen (I try to avoid having covers since I need all the room I can for music - I didn't even know I had any!). Back in iTunes I can not only see all of my smart playlists on the iPod, but all of my songs too AND I can play them off of the iPod from within iTunes.
I'm going to try removing some of the playlists because that's when it worked last and because I don't know what else to try.
Does anyone know why I'm getting this condition and how to fix it?
Thanks.
Craig B.

Ok, after trying a couple of other things (without success), I finally deleted all of the playlists as a test and the iPod works again.
So... That means that there is a limit to the number of playlists you can have on an iPod!
Does anyone happen to know how many you can have? (I.e, what IS the limit?)

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