Lotsa Songs MIA

I don't know if this is related to the recent upgrade. I upgraded about a week ago and have been out of town since, just chomping at at bit and slightly annoyed.
Seems that after my upgrade the number of songs on my IPOD (5g, 30gb black) is 1/6 of what is in my iTunes library -- noticed this on the plane when I couldn't do anything about it. I just don't know what happened. I have done an ipod update a few times and the songs don't to copy over. They were all there a week ago.
I don't know what to do. Try to go back to the previous ipod version, find a utility to copy the missing songs over, clean the ipod (not sure how) and start from scratch. Something I haven't mentioned.
Any suggestions are very much appreciated.

I'm kinda confused.
Originally, it looks as if you had iTunes set to Automatically update only certain playlists and it did not put all the songs on your iPod.
You did change it to Automatically update all and it worked.
"but I did change my settings to include all playlists and it seemed to work"
Then you set it back to Automatically update only certain playlists and again, your entire library is not on the iPod.
"Do you think there's any harm in changing my settings to select which playlists?
Actually tried it and the 80% of my songs once again disappeared"
TO me, this simply looks as if when you select Automaticcaly update only selected playlists, those playlists do not contain all the songs in your library.
Yes, but it used to work fine before, since the upgrade it really doesn't. I created some of the playlists on the PC just to burn CDs -- not to listen to on the Ipod. This is one quirk I live with -- at least for the time being.
I don't understand what you are having a problem with.
Set it to Automatically update all playlists.
If you create a playlist to burn CDs, delete it after you burn the CD.
Next time you sync the iPod, it will get deleted off the iPod.

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at Dougs Scripts, there is one called iTunes Track CPR that might work
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=itunestrackcpr
or, if you just want a list of de-linked tracks, go to
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
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if you review the thread at
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3633708
also the thread at
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17513078#17513078
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There may be scripts that can help re-link de-linked music files - or, at least provide you a list of such files, Scripts are easy to install and use...
at Dougs Scripts, there is one called iTunes Track CPR that might work
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=itunestrackcpr
or, if you just want a list of de-linked tracks, go to
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
and find the script called List MIA's, this will create a text file listing all de-linked tracks
if you review the thread at
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3633708
also the thread at
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17513078#17513078
you may find more insight into dealing with this kind of issue there, although some of that thread may not apply to your case, aspects of it might help.
Good luck.

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or, if you just want a list of de-linked tracks, go to
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3633708
also the thread at
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http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/07/12/how-to-delete-apps-from-your-ipod-touch-or- iphone/

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