Playlist/folder Help.

Hello.
To cut down on confusion, this is exaclty what I want to acheive:
I want to go to the music section of my iPod then to Playlists then to a folder INSIDE the playlists called 'Albums' and INSIDE the Albums folder, there are numerous albums that I can listen to.
I have about 15 albums ripped on my computer, and I want to transfer those on my iPod, but dont want them to be individual songs. So what I thought I would do was make a playlist of each album, thats what I did, but the thing is that those albums show up with other playlists too such as, recently added, on the go, etc. And this gets very confusing.
Does anybody have an idea on how I could get a folder inside the playlists which has all my albums in it?

Hard to tell why they are gone. Possible file corruption but I find it is also very easy to accidentally delete playlists. If it was a smart playlist it is relatively easy to reconstruct if you know the selection criteria. If it was a manual playlist then how much you can reconstruct depends upon your backup status.
Three methods to recover from a damaged library.
1) iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451 - use .xml version of library file to restore most of the information in your library.
2) https://discussions.apple.com/message/19346070 - use automatic backup of old version of library file. This method reverts to the library as it was when you last upgraded iTunes - depends upon when you last upgraded your iTunes application.
3) As in #2 but use a copy of the .itl file from a recent backup of your computer.

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In the screen shot below, the selected song is in 4 playlists (circled), but all playlist folders are displayed.

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