Itunes is telling me my playlists "don't exist"

A while ago, I got to capacity of songs, and it told me I couldn't update my ipod, and did I want to choose a selection of songs for a playlist, which I agreed to.
This got rid of all my other playlists, and when I tried to get them back it said they didn't exist!
Then, it wiped all my songs on the ipod, but they are still there in the library, and I can't do any updating st all as the playlists don't exist, yet I don't have any playlists now as I deleted them all!
PLEASE HELP, this is highly frustrating I have no songs on my ipod and I have an 8 hour coach journey this coming sunday :S:S:S:S:S:S:S

Simply re-create the playlist you want to use to sync your iPod with, then in your iPod preferences indicate that iTunes is to sync only that checked playlist.

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