New pc; music on external drive; can I get playlists off an iPod?

Got a new pc drive, and the guy who installed it successfuly transferred everything except .........
The music's safely on my external hard drive,and I have iTunes pointing to it, but my HUNDREDS of playlists have disappeared from iTunes. My iPod is organised by the playlists, but I'm too frightened to just sync and see what happend.
Whatever iTunes file held them originally must have been wiped by all my efforts to find them.
Is it possible to get the playlists off the ipod without transferring all the music?
thanks, Mick

That's a great article!
On an iPod, it's simple. Just open the hidden folders on the iPod and drag them individually back into iTunes. iPhones/newer iTouch don't allow this method so as the article suggests, you have to use software such as TuneAid or others.
There is however another method as well.
I recently saw a device called a "Clickfree Transformer". It is basically a USB device (small inline unit mounted on a USB cable) which allows automatic backup from your PC to a hard drive. However they sell one model for around $30 which will allow (so they say) data/music on an iPod/iPhone to be uploaded to the PC and into iTunes. I read some online reviews and it seems to work.
So you could try this Clickfree device. Just be sure you get the correct one (I believe it's the WHITE, not the black "SE" one for this purpose).

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