ITunes deleting playlists on iPod

Hey guys,
I have this very annoying problem. My iTunes keeps deleting the playlists that I've created on my iPod whenever I connect it to my Mac. I'm not sure what's happening to iTunes to allow it to delete my playlists or songs that I've added to a playlist via my iPod. Any suggestions?

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Howdy. I have a list of 10 or so playlists within iTunes. When I sync with my iPod, it copies the 10 playlists that I have, PLUS about 8 or 9 other OLD playlists that I no longer have in iTunes. So, after a sync, I have 10 playlists on iTunes and 18 playlists on the iPod.
I have done a restore on the iPod, and on my first sync, once again, the old (previously deleted) playlists returned to the iPod.
The only way I have ever been able to remove these playlists from the iPod is to manually manage the iPod and then remove them. But, as soon as I set it to automatically sync, they return.
Since the iPod has been restored, and it still didn't fix it, I'm guessing there is a configuration file somewhere on my Mac that I don't know about which is being repeatedly written to the iPod.
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I would recommend recreating your iTunes Library. Be sure to back up the playlists that you DO want to keep, however.
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