Moved iTunes folder to a shared folder and lost all of my playlists

Any way to recover, I just moved the iTunes folder to the Shared Music folder so that my wife's account on the PC could use the musica as well...any way to find/recover the playlists? If i sync, will it remove them from my ipod?

One cannot move the music folders, rename song files or anything similar outside of the iTunes environment and expect the program to understand what has taken place. You just lose the reference pointers and other music metadata within iTunes.
Move all the music files back where they were, recover your Library and then move the Library within iTunes using the process explained in the link below:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=1728552

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